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 When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.  If you can't help it, don't think about it. A gourmet is just a glutton with brains. Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. - Bible Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth; but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. - Bible To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Ding, dong, bell, Pussy's in the well; Who put her in? Little Tommy Green. Who pulled her out? Little Johnny Stout. A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. He who lives in the present lives in eternity. Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. Gnaw your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, gnaw it still. Laws die, books never. The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. It is better to be envied than pitied. Money, like a queen, gives rank and beauty . 
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