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"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."
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"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
"Embrace the sweetness of life like a gift honeycomb from the hive."
"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
"Road accidents, psycho killings, plane crashes abound - we don't know which day will be our last, so why not make today the happiest day and be thankful for all that we have?"
"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
"There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back."
"Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, at the rich colour which came at every expressed emotion into her usually sallow face, at the faultless teeth which made her smile like a sunbeam."
"More than likely you'll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man's bucket."
"God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave."
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"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
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