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 Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. - Catullus  I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest. I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying. Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life. Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate. I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God. The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. Tact is the intelligence of the heart. The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. Discretion is not the better part of biography. It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible. We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands. College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street, heat his coffee and eat a can of beans ... with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival. We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine. Television is chewing gum for the eyes. It takes twenty years to make an overnight success. Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. 
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