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 But that is another story.  From error to error one discovers the entire truth. To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature. He who demands little gets it. The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along. You cannot plan the future by the past. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'. Leisure is the mother of philosophy. There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact. It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length. That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway. I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes. Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. 
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