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 What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.  Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience. The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further. You're only as sick as your secrets. If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious. I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget. The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. When they came to shoe the horses, the beetle stretched out his leg. Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. Only great men may have great faults. If this is dying, I don't think much of it. Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm. 
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