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 Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.  Sorrow makes us all children again. To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn. The basic fact of today is the tremendous. It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. The wildest colts make the best horses. - Plutarch I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever. It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35,000 a year. Obviously, that doesn't include food or lodging. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul. Age has a good mind and sorry shanks. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others. Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down. The fun of being alive is realizing you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger.... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated, why, it's just as good as sex. Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication. By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. Nothing will content him who is not content with a little. Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. 
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