"The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless……" — James Hilton
"The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!"
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18 Quotes by James Hilton
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Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.
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The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
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if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without
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