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 Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.  If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change. Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it. When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored. - Saki I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge, we must settle things by the sword. Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of. I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made. It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere. 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 The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries. - Epicurus 
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