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 Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.  As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. What thou thyself hatest, do to no man. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. Do not pray by heart, but with the heart. We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. No one is expected to achieve the impossible. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often. All great men come out of the middle classes. The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate, bad as it is, at least treats the neighbour as a thou, whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it, a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality, the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned, is manifest in the phrase, T couldn't care less.' Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument. 
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