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 When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.  We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe Joys divided are increased. The greatest happiness of the greatest number. A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want. Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle. Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. - Voltaire In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. We have found that the best way for our marriage to work is to let me make the big decisions and my wife the small ones. With this system, I'm noticing, there are usually no big ones. One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing. The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. If people are suffering, then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. An' I learned about women from 'er. 
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