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 It's no good saying one thing and doing another.  I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang, hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression. Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. Poets have a license to lie. There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to. Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. - Moliere If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. There's a thread that binds all of us together, pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line. Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited; and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. The palest ink is better than the best memory. Let's just say, he has too many pigeons on his antenna. Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. 
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