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 Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.  We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat! The richer your friends, the more they will cost you. It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! The head is always the dupe of the heart. I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them. No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose. I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it. For when the wine is in, the wit is out. There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life. Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run. In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Love is a great beautifier. 
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