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 Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. - Epicurus  Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Honest labor bears a lovely face. When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't. A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is. Like mother, like daughter. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. A friend in power is a friend lost. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. A good friend is my nearest relation. Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive. Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates. Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory. There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. A wonderful stream is the River Time, As it runs through the realms of Tears, With a faultless rhythm, and a musical rhyme, As it blends with the ocean of Years. For they can conquer who believe they can. - Virgil 
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