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 Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.  In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus. He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. All cruelty springs from weakness. - Seneca If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered. Humour is just another defence against the universe. As an entrepreneur, I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well, persevere comes from the Latin roots purse, as in "money," and sever, as in "cut off." That's why I persevered. The environment is everything that isn't me. The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. Newfoundland is a great English ship, moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen. In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it. Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered. Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. Energy and persistence conquer all things. Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. - Napoleon Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old. 
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