It was this willingness to find poetry in things around them that kept his life and Isabel's fresh, and they taught their children the secret of their elixir.
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Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.William Dean Howells
We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.
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In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
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I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all and the toiler's truest and best reward.
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