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 Character is simply habit long enough continued. - Plutarch  There is no data on the future. A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool, Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea, And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee. Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be? My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled. The spectacle has changed, but our eyes remain the same. People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!" The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance. A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. They asked Lucman, the fabulist, From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly. - Sadi The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for, his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for, he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed, no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing, humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential. There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself. Bed is the poor man's opera. 
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