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 In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.  Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law. They that know no evil will suspect none. I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. - Bob Hope Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions. Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor. Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue. He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was. If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims. Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence. Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. Life is hard. Next to what? A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier. 
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