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 Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.  A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor. Necessity is the mother of taking chances. The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Never cut what you can untie. Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often. Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already. Man's best support is a very dear friend. - Cicero Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm, a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life. A heaven on earth. In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time. 
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