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 Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Goethe  He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. To be honest, one must be inconsistent. Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat. God is clever, but not dishonest. I never gossip, but I can give you the names of certain people who do. My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? The groom is so much better for her than her last boyfriend. He's sophisticated, he brings her flowers and candy, he dines by candlelight. Her last boyfriend thought it was enough to spray her name on a fence. What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Trust your gut. A man's rootage is more important than his leafage. Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. 
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