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 Pushing fifty is exercise enough.  My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up. to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. Few great men could pass personnel. A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing. God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be dumb. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. - Bible What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope. We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil. It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. I know lots more old drunks than old doctors. Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it. If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed. There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time. He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint. Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake, sweet, but not nourishing. 
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