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 When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.  Poor Mexico, so far from God and so near to the United States. Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet. I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression. No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others. One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff. I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in. To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow. Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal. Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being? If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild. Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones. At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been. 
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