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 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.  There are some remedies worse than the disease. Old age is an island surrounded by death. American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more. Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again. We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. Buildings should be good neighbours. So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence. I know lots more old drunks than old doctors. Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing, they become fanatics about conservatism. They are rich who have true friends. The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence. The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. 
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