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 The only menace is inertia.  The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Luck is what a capricious man believes in. Freedom means choosing your burden. Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest. I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself. After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth. I learn by going where I have to go. Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. A day is a miniature eternity. Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best. Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned. What we prepare for is what we shall get. Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be. 
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