Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall.

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If we are only as the potter's clay
Made to be fashioned as the artist wills,
And broken into shards if we offend
The eye of Him who made us, it is well.

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Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.

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