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 The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.  Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down. Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine. A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice. Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors. Every path has its puddle. Oh, the long and dreary Winter! Oh, the cold and cruel Winter! The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory. Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. Your luck is how you treat people. Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus. By putting his hand around my neck, he slowly strangled himself. No gains without pains. Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones. 
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