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 I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.  Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity. The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without. It is the spur of ignorance, the consciousness of not understanding, and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress. Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. It is in changing that things find purpose. What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer. I have learnt a good deal from my own talk. Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world. - Saki My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation. No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. The work will teach you how to do it. It's an ill plan that cannot be changed. My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more. I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men. Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Chance favors the prepared mind. Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck. The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. 
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