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 The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.  It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. The world loves a spice of wickedness. Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? The flag of our Union forever! Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog. "Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care. Remorse begets reform. One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness. Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. I am a part of all that I have met. Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. 
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