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 A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.  I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it. Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much. To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die. Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead? Ninety percent of living is just showing up. Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. The only question left to be settled now is, are women persons? Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. Independence is happiness. 
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