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 Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.  Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa. Night is the mother of counsels. At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan, but to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. Years back someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all! Cheerfulness is more palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste. He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. - Bible Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. The greyhound that starts many hares kills none. As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous. In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean. A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. 
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