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 A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.  If a man be self-controlled, truthful, wise, and resolute, is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man? Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. It is the spur of ignorance, the consciousness of not understanding, and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress. Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. I'm not funny. What I am is brave. Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier. If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. - Seneca Who lies for you will lie against you. Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him? As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise." You are remembered for the rules you break. England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. - Voltaire Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered. Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. 
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