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 If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."  You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies. In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable. The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue. We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know. I succeed him; no one could replace him. Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. Humor has great power to heal on an emotional level. You can't hold anger, you can't hold fear, you can't hold hurt while you're laughing. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Art is the signature of civilizations. Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Counting both times I cheated this week, I won at solitaire twice. Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as spreading oak gives more shelter. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. Since good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows. Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. - Matthew After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting. 
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