"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.“

-William Lyon Phelps

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"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."

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"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."

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"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow."

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"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

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"A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration."

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."

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"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

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