"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."

Time, People, Homesickness, Nothing

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"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."

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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

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