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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the...more

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

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The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in...more

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.