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 Ninety percent of living is just showing up.  Do as we say, and not as we do. I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that liveth thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. Love teaches even asses to dance. Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad. How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil. The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years. Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust. There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love. They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold 
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