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 Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.  When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions! The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one. Think sideways! And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it. The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. Better is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life. Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily. What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue. Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. 
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