Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's … - Lafcadio Hearn

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Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.

Lafcadio Hearn

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

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No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

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All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

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Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists. . . but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

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In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

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