The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them. Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. One can advise comfortably from a safe port. Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. Let your performance do the thinking. No pressure, no diamonds. Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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