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 The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.  Of two evils, choose the less. The successful man is he who, when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp. Hope is the last thing that dies in man. We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying. Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. Examine the personality of the mother, who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being. In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force. Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats. 
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