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 A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.  Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and of a King of England too. When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. - Plautus It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat. He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. - Horace When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear. Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. Showing up is 80 percent of life. Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven. Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union. Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else. Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause. 
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