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A reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for it.

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

God will wait as long as it takes for us.

Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!

There can be no rainbow without a storm and a cloud.

When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer.