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 To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.  Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. Love me, please; I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it. Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs. And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself. Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise. Similes are like songs of love: They much describe, they nothing prove. AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy. Losses are comparative, imagination only makes them of any moment. The way of progress is neither swift nor easy. People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. Werther had a love for Charlotte, Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. 
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