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 The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.  A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt. The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts. Beethoven can write music, thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth. If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away. The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. He who sings frightens away his ills. I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me." I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside. When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason - there's a reason. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none. I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it. Leisure time is when your wife can't find you As is our confidence, so is our capacity. Never exaggerate your faults; your friends will attend to that. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour." In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. 
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