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 At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato  For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell. Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations. The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds. Revolutions are not made; they come. Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. Solomon ibn Gabirol Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. - Bible Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. 
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