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 To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.  Keeping a secret from my wife is like trying to smuggle daylight past a rooster. Annoyed wife to husband: Can't you just say we've been married twenty-four years instead of "almost a quarter of a century"? My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more. To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God, and manly reliance on self. A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself. My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. If of thy mortal goods thoU art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. - Sadi Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age. - Ausonius Never cut what you can untie. Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre. When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens. Response to clapping: "Thank you for ovating." He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. Love me, please; I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it. The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good. Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. 
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