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 We live on the leash of our senses.  In the bad old days, there were three easy ways of losing money - racing being the quickest, women the pleasantest and farming the most certain. Life isn't long enough for love and art. Successful minds work like a gimlet, to a single point. Humour is just another defence against the universe. The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. - Bible Through wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established. - Bible A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down. Time is the soul of this world. - Plutarch If you've got it, flaunt it. If you do not, pretend. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties, and is prepared to assume responsibilities. I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it. If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God. He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. I know lots more old drunks than old doctors. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt. Self-complacency is fatal to progress. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. 
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