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• Character is that which can do without success. -- Emerso
• The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 1...
• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  -- Emerso...
• Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech, July 25 and 27, 1846, Vol. v, p. 187...
• An apology is the superglue of life: it can repair just about anything. -- Lynn Johnsto
• Bicycle Repair Man, how can I ever repair you?" "Well, you don't need to, gov, it's all right.
  It's all in a day's work for ... Bicycle Repair Man. <Sniff!>" -- Monty Pytho...
• Try to have as good a life as you can under the circumstances.