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“One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.”
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“A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.”
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“In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.”
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“Conversation was a kind of little flashlight, with which you explored caves you had never been in before. You never could guess, when you started, what you would find.”
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“For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.”
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“We will never lose if we define and redefine ourselves after each failure.”
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“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
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“... eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.”