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 Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Bible  The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.) Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. The present will not long endure. - Pindar Any truth creates a scandal. Like will to like, each creature loves his kind. He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. Necessity, the mother of invention. A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman. An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. Optimism is an intellectual choice. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Life holds so much, so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed. Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach. 
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