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Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty. A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him. Imagination is the eye of the soul. Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone. The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations. The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama. A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength. Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight. The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die. The world, like an accomplished hostess, pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Friends and wine should be old. A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. The Nature of This Flower is to bloom. Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye; that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die. A man's home is his wife's castle. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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