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 One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.  If we try to envisage an 'average Canadian writer' we can see him living near a campus, teaching at least part-time at university level, mingling too much for his work's good with academics, doing as much writing as he can for the CBC, and always hoping for a Canada Council Fellowship. Some things have to be believed to be seen. The greyhound that starts many hares kills none. Prosperity makes few friends. Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose. Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion. Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell. The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Art is a delayed echo. One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age. What begins in fear usually ends in folly. Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother. - Homer If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?" An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause. 
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