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 A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.  The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them. There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. Necessity makes even the timid brave. - Sallust We can build upon foundations anywhere, if they are well and truly laid. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life. Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom. Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more. The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor. Those lose least who have least to lose. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions. If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing. My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. 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. 
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