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 The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.  He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers. A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together. Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have. Fear is the soul's signal for rallying. She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care. The great cathedral space which was childhood. Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. We grow by love ... others are our nutriment. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest. The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. This struggle of people against their conditions, this is where you find the meaning in life. The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner. 
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