"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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"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.“
-Norman Douglas
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"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."
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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."
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"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."
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"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
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