Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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But her correctness was of the finer sort, and had no air of being studied or achieved conduct would never offer her a problem to be settled from a book of rules, for the rules were so deep within her that she was unconscious of them.Booth Tarkington
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
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The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
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