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 A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together.  A friend in need is a friend indeed. The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one. Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. - Voltaire People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it. Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Literature is my utopia. When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content! Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1,048,576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again. A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste. Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle, and a victory. 
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