The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus -- 'one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.'
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We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.
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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.
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