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Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs. Martha Scott		Monday Nov 02, 2026
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About Ray Stannard Baker

	Ray Stannard Baker
	(1870-1946) Under My Elm by David Grayson - pseudonym: David Grayson US author, biographer.

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Most of us have collections of sayings we live by.... Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.

Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? .... I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? .... Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. Ill think about what I am going to write tomorrownot about me, not about my body.

Nothing lastsnot even pain.

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

Suddenly it came to me, as a kind of new light, that I would no longer resist and struggle; I would accept the unavoidable. If it was in the nature of my disease, what else that was wise could I do? At first the torment, ravaging unrestrained, seemed even

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