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 Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.  Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt. O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. Time is an illusion-to orators. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. Don't give advice unless you're asked. Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks. One's lifework, I have learned, grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it, and first thing you know, you'll have made a life out of it. A good life, too. Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal. No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city. Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does. 
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