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 All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.  Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. - Pascal Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. One can find women who have never had a love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful? Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown, And three with a new song's measure, Can trample an empire down. Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege even better. Facts are stubborn things. If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. [A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" Love is a kind of military service. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door. 
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