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 If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion. - Stendhal  When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too. A heaven on earth. It matters not how long we live, but how. Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. The Englishman loves to roll his tongue around the word, 'extraordinary'. It so pleases him that he is reluctant to finish the sound which goes on into harmonics and overtones. The North American publisher is likewise inclined. If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus. Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. When the white man came, we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles. We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser. It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them. Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. - Bible The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present. We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale. God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it. Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. 
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