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 Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.  The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts." A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. To some people, the impossible is impossible. I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know. I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all. The whole world is about three drinks behind. No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with Spring rain. It is not customary to love what one has. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling. Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera. Fear always springs from ignorance. Prayer is the voice of faith. Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst. 
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