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 If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.  Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. Man's best support is a very dear friend. - Cicero The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic. No man is happy unless he believes he is. I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman. 
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