We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
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I hate quotations.
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Raphael paints wisdom Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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People are to be taken in very small doses.
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