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 When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.  Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched. Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time. 1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage. When you first learn to love hell, you will be in heaven. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't fake. If I could know me, I could know the universe. The signs of the times. - Matthew What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better. It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any distinguished collection, with aplomb -and not culture, or any intellect whatever. 
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