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Make a home, lad, for the woman who loves you; gather one or two friends about you; work, think, and play, that will bring you happiness.
We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing.
Be brave and true, little boy. Work hard and wait with patience,
Fate is so terribly even-handed. As she gives she ever takes away.
agree with Louis Stevenson, that to be amiable and cheerful is a good religion for a work-a-day world.
We have turned the world into a workshop to provide ourselves with toys. To purchase luxury we have sold our ease.
One of the problems of social life is to know what to say to one another when we meet; every man and woman's desire is to appear sympathetic and clever, and this makes conversation difficult,
The woman's highest ideal of man is the lover; to a man the woman is always the possible beloved. We see each other's hearts, but not each other's souls.
We build our heaven of the stones of our desires:
