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 Nothing is ours except time.  Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling. Ottawa is a city where nobody lives, though some of us may die there. Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity. There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. - Moliere The surest sign of fitness is success. In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it. Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. - Proudhon I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. To live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often. I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay. We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility. Between friends there is no need of justice. Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? 
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