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 Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.  Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall. In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. "Will you walk into my parlour?" Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy." It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others. The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails, you have another meeting. I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun. The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close. My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them. I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host. To understand is to forgive, even oneself. So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way. If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men. There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things. A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. 
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