“ Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. ”
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“ Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. ”
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“ I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ”
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“ I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ”
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“ For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ”
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“ I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ”
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“ Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May — how often has it robbed me of heart and hope. ”
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“ This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous. ”
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“ That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ”
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“ Down in Farringdon Street the carts, wagons, vans, cabs, omnibuses crossed and intermingled in a steaming splash-bath of mud; human beings, reduced to their due paltriness, seemed to toil in exasperation along the strips of pavement, bound on errands, which were a mockery, driven automaton-like by forces they neither understood nor could resist. ”
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“ Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May — how often has it robbed me of heart and hope. ”
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“ The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm. ”
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“ For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ”
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“ Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter. ”
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“ This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous. ”
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“ That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ”
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“ Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May — how often has it robbed me of heart and hope. ”
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“ For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ”
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“ Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. ”
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“ For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ”
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“ For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ”
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“ It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. ”
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“ It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. ”
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“ I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? ”
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“ The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm. ”
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