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There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God. The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep. The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict. Fortune favors the audacious. No one is happy all his life long. You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too. In politics, a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. The only reward of virtue is virtue. God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink. A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
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