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 The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.  The world forgetting, by the world forgot. The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. - Voltaire To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen. Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end. No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm, as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy Few love what they may have. - Ovid He had a face like a benediction. Faith is the summit of the Torah. Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. When actors begin to think, it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it. I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman. Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for. Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own. 
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