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 Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to be seventy, it stretches into a condor.  To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind. Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you." The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts." Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. "So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter." Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book. A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man. Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like. Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again. The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. Whether it be to failure or success, the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails. Zeal will do more than knowledge. Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. 
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