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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Herman Melville

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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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