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 It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.  Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want, call us and we'll show you how to live without it." When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. All men are poets at heart. I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value. Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. Retirement must be wonderful. I mean, you can suck in your stomach for only so long. Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball. Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. Courage leads starward, fear toward death. A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer. Evil spelled backward is live. - Graffiti No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat. One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Order is Heaven's first law. It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. - Bible 
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