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 For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.  Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer. - Goethe How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority! The best proof of love is trust. As a beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar. I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy. To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. I hope you live to be as old as your jokes. Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave. Two wrongs can never make a right. Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh. An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there. I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile. What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.) We must like what we have when we don't have what we like. It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy. 
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