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"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."
"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."
"It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty."
"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
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