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 What I cannot love, I overlook.  Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. To do is to be. - Socrates To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. They pick a president, and then for four years they pick on him. When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. A dimple in the chin; a devil within. He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee! Expenditure rises to meet income. Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs. Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. If you would be loved, love and be lovable. If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York. - O. Henry About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel. May God ... let me strive for attainable things. - Pindar Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself. 
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