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Man's best support is a very dear friend.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.
The best is the cheapest.
Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.
He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.
Time is the author of authors.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
If you aren't rich, you should always look useful.
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.


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