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 When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. - Seneca  Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat. Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. - Bible Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror. Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book. Something must happen! The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men. Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate. He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race, Parents unmarried and living abroad, relatives keen to bag the estate, schizophrenia not excluded, will he learn to grow up before it's too late? For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny. My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. 
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