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Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again, and it will succumb. Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us. You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans. Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears. The powers that be are ordained of God. Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness. God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear. Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow. What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar. There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things. Christian life consists of faith and charity. All this, and Heaven too! Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years. A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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