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 Giving opens the way for receiving.  Irrevocable as a haircut. To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. - Moliere If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. Character is perfectly educated will. - Novalis The schools ain't what they used to be and never was. There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one. Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well. I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women. It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most. If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam. A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature. A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still. An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form. It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it. Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. 
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