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 If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow.  I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one. - Voltaire An amiable weakness. Friends are relatives you make for yourself. I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances. Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. My wife, Mary, and I have been married for forty-seven years, and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. We are always getting ready to live, but never living. The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. New links must be forged as old ones rust. Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. - Cicero He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich. The corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35,000 a year. Obviously, that doesn't include food or lodging. No one is expected to achieve the impossible. Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? 
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