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 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.  Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other. There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. Despair doubles our strength. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor. The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church. Stolen kisses are always sweetest. All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still. Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase. I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks. Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so. We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. There are only two families in the world, as a Grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-nots. 
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