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"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."


"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."


"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."


"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."


"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."


"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself."


"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
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