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 One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.  If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more. It is by faith that poetry, as well as devotion, soars above this dull earth; that imagination breaks through its clouds, breathes a purer air, and lives in a softer light. The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things. If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. I'd like to thank the committee that brought this event about. It was an equal endeavor. They did the food, decorations, and reservations, and I did the traffic flow. In the present, every day is a miracle. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Truth never dies but lives a wretched life. Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. Audacity has made kings. The important thing is not what they think of me, it is what I think of them. And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear. - Bible No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life. The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. Contentment is worth more than riches. 
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