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 I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.  After paying for the wedding, about all a father has left to give away is the bride. The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. Giving is the highest expression of potency. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. Deep down he is shallow. Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. A mother who is really a mother is never free. It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication. The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road, where we had to earn our bread. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild. The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. - Plautus If a conceptual distinction is to be made, the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language, it cannot be made conceptually. Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last. - Martial 
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