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 There are no perfect people - except, of course, my wife's first husband.  The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs. Growing old - it's not nice, but it's interesting. Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner. We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got. Patience is the art of hoping. Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison. Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people. The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world. My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers. A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him. For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade. - John Gay 
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