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 Literature is news that stays news.  You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you. We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living. If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars! A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government. The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second. Necessity is the mother of taking chances. Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it! To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless. My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age. Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own. The number-one fear in life is public speaking, and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy. Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck. I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language. No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. 
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