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 The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.  The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance. The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight." Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try. A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. A wise man never refuses anything to necessity. Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it. Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater. The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns. I don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer? Of all the young men in America, only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay. There may be little or much beyond the grave, But the strong are saying nothing until they see. A happy life is made up of little things-a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. 
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