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 Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.  The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred. - Seneca The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. In extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too. It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening. You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve. - Socrates You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder. Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.' The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him. Man is both determined and self-determining. The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, 'O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.' Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. It's no good saying one thing and doing another. 
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