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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.

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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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