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Our troubles keep us going.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Troubles
Trouble
Gone
Keep
Going

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Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
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I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before.
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Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
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In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.
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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
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Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
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My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.
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Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.
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The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
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Publish in haste and repent at leisure.
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Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.
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