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 There breaks in every Gloucester wave A windowed woman's heart.  The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang, hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression. Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Goethe Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too. Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment. Boys don't make passes at female smart asses. In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose. Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat. No man is a hero to his own wife; no woman is a wife to her own hero. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Fortune sides with him who dares. - Virgil 'Tis what I love determines how I love. Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment. We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. It takes time to save time. An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. 
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