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 He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.  Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. Nothing is permanent but change. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Curiosity killed the cat. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away. To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently, or the world will be lost indeed. Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy-watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship, keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known. The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. There is no greatness where there is not simplicity. Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get. Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. 
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