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 I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.  That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad. Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? Before such a prodigious career, judgement is torn between blame and admiration. I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes. Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them. Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. The happy people are those who are producing something. Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring - not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. It is better to be safe than sorry. I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream. In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. Anything done for another is done for oneself. What isn't tried won't work. Faith, hope, and charity-if we had more of the first two, we'd need less of the last. 
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