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"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."

"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died."

"It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine."

"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
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"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."
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