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 I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.  Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet, I kiss her feet. Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself. Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog. I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one. - Voltaire Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running. Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do. Always bring money along with your complaints. - Plautus Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space. A word spoken in good season, how good it is! - Proverbs I wouldn't say someone is old just because his social security is in Roman numerals or because Mozart played at his senior prom. A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. 
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