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 Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.  You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. The way to rise is to obey and please. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept. Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life. Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the rest. Words should be weighed and not counted. A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still. People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose." 
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