"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."
-Norman Douglas
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"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.“
-Norman Douglas
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"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"
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"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."
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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."
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"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."
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