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- We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
- There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
- The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to…
- What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of…
- Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.
- How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being…
- What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
- What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say
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