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 Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.  We may our ends by our beginnings know. Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there. He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. - Horace Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above That I love the man I marry. Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life. If thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this. Ottawa is a city where nobody lives, though some of us may die there. One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe. Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital. Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. If a man bites a dog, that is news. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars. Without risk, faith is an impossibility. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. 
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