The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
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