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 Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.  Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens. The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant. Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Much rain wears the marble. The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. - Ouida Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going. Servant of God, well done. You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. (The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. Ireland is a fatal disease; fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen. There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully. What does not destroy me, makes me strong. Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. 
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