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• One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing…
• At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
• I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
• A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
• A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
• One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
• The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he…
• If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a…
• Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it…
• Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
• I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull.…

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