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 The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. When enthusiasm is inspired by reason; controlled by caution; sound in theory; practical in application; reflects confidence; spreads good cheer; raises morale; inspires associates; arouses loyalty; and laughs at adversity, it is beyond price. Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them. She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star. Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage. Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get. Friends are a second existence. To always be intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command, His first command is this - "Man, love thyself." If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent, and so would always be able to have water in abundance, how fortunate he would consider himself; so too, when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. 
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