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Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer. ”
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity. ”
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party. ”
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ”
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ”
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. ”
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. ”
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ”
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. ”
To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished. ”