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 The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.  I am dying, Egypt, dying. It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it. It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats. It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong. You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it A man is what he thinks about all day long. Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here. Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first. God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world! Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard. And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do . . . For all men have one entrance into life. The Apocrypha Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe Thursday's child has far to go Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living, But the child born on the Sabbath day Is happy and wise and good and gay. A caress is better than a career. Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies! - Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. 
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