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With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too. It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it. Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged. If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few. For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I'm not enjoying it. Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other, to let her have it. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright! I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host. Animals feed, man eats; die man of intellect alone knows how to eat. All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word. The crown of creation. He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration. Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.
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