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 Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.  Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver. Everything changes but change itself. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing. There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. One fifth of the people are against everything all the time. Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions. Who covets more is evermore a slave. I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them. I've just learned about his illness; let's hope it's nothing trivial. Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. 
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