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 Ding, dong, bell, Pussy's in the well; Who put her in? Little Tommy Green. Who pulled her out? Little Johnny Stout.  What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion. We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living. Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try. Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us. Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. After fifteen years of marriage, my wife wants us to recommit our vows. As a man, I don't understand her need to get married again. We've got our toaster, let's move on. By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time. Praise the sea; on shore remain. Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? Moderation in war is imbecility. Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom! The worst hatred is that of relatives. - Tacitus Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job. - Bible There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy. 
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