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 What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.  What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not. An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. A cheer, then, for the noble breast that fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most. The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. - Ayn Rand There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully. We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe In the present, every day is a miracle. Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning. I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break. She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. Adversity is the first path to truth. After a debauch of thundershower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind. 
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