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 I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.  Few people know how to be old. Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate. Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions. Everything holds its breath except spring. She bursts through as strong as ever. The dreadful dead of dark midnight. What women want is what men want. They want respect. Much rain wears the marble. The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us. Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise. I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed. Education is indoctrination, if you're white - subjugation if you're black. You cannot have it both ways. Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid. 
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