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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

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