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 One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.  Never eat more than you can lift. Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet. Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.' Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen. Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat. It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint. Sex is like money; only too much is enough. Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Many hands make light work. 
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