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 Florida: God's waiting room.  If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success. How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong." If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them. The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. All happiness depends on courage and work. Actors are the only honest hypocrites. One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere. No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father. The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear. The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little. I know lots more old drunks than old doctors. You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it. Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. 
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