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• An easy life saps one's will.
• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self, for what we wish, that we readily believe.
  -- Demosthene...
• Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzza
  And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels....
• It ain't easy being easy.
• Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
  -- Patricia Sampso...
• Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book viii, Line 192...
• To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has.
  When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy. -- Thomas A. Buckne...
• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
  -- A. A. Milne...