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 I'm not funny. What I am is brave.  Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. Some people tell us that there ain't no Hell, But they never farmed, so how can they tell? The thing we fear we bring to pass. I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one. - Voltaire I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop? I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them. Take the time to come home to yourself everyday. What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! There's small choice in rotten apples. I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous. Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. . . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue. There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. In time of war the devil makes more room in hell. A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. 
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