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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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To know nothing is the happiest life. – Desiderius Erasmus

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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. – Henry David Thoreau

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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a mans life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. – Henry David Thoreau

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