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 In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.  Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral, I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them." Victory belongs to the most persevering. Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall. In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy. Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play. Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right. The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them. Henry James chews more than he bites off. Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them. Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. 
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