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 Never eat more than you can lift.  At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things. Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven. Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different. As time requireth, a man of marvellous mirth and past times, and sometimes of as sad gravity, as who say: a man for all seasons. It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. Who I am is the best I can be. There is a budding tomorrow in midnight. It's not what you see that is art, art is the gap. I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host. We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument. Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential. A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. When fate's got it in for you, there's no limit to what you may have to put up with. She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care. The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. 
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