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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, read more
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship read more
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious read more
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his read more
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
