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 I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death....  Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it. Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. Retirement must be wonderful. I mean, you can suck in your stomach for only so long. The insolence of office. The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, who he assumes to have perfect vision. His only fault is that he has no fault. I love not man the less, but nature more. He's so old his social security number is two digits. Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. Literature is news that stays news. You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose. A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell. Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love. The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. - Erasmus 
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