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Taking Somebody's Sacrifices Is Like Taking Counterfeit Money. You're Only The Poorer.

Help That Is Not Positively Necessary Is A Hindrance To A Growing Organism.

Vermont Tradition Is Based On The Idea That Group Life Should Leave Each Person As Free As Possible To Arrange His Own Life. This Freedom Is The Only Climate In Which (we Feel) A Human Being May Create His Own Happiness. ... Character Itself Lies Deep And Secret Below The Surface, Unknown And Unknowable By Others. It Is The Mysterious Core Of Life, Which Every Man Or Woman Has To Cope With Alone, To Live With, To Conquer And Put In Order, Or To Be Defeated By.

Almost Anything Is Enough To Keep Alive Someone Who Wishes Nothing For Himself But Time To Write Music.

It Was Always Insolent For A Common Man To Take A Chair In The Presence Of A Lady - The Word Lady, We May Be Sure, Capitalized In Her Mind, And Denoting Not Sex But Rank.