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 He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture, painting, statuary and music.  If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help. No gains without pains. Canada is a society, rather than a nation. Children are the bridge to heaven. The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. - Proverbs I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its reception. But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier. Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly. There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. - Bible Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings. The proverb warns that, "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. 
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