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 Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.  It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government. Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me. Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence. When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all. We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters. - Plato All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity. The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is "what does a woman want"? Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force. 
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