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 Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)  To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. The schools ain't what they used to be and never was. As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me. Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen. Two wrongs do not make a right. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking. Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris. Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective. You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. Without tact you can learn nothing. If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had. One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. 
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