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 I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.  Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age. All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. Numbers constitute the only universal language. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace. Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. Liberal - a power worshipper without power. I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable. The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat. If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. 
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