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 The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.  If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too. I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there. We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics. A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. Jimmy and I were always partners. Went in at the one ear and out at the other. We have a tried and tested system of government that, in being so flexible, exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh. It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact. We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent. The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing. Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best. Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us. 
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