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Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules. Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything. Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking. American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything. Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be. Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen. No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him. I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. Not what we wish, but what we need, Oh! let your grace supply, The good unasked, in mercy grant; The ill, though asked, deny.
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