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No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. – William Ralph Inge

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It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. – C.W. Leadbeater

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

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Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. – Victor Hugo

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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James Baldwin

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Every man should have a library. The works of the grandest masters of literature may now be procured at prices that place them within the reach almost of the very poorest, and we may all put Parnassian singing birds into our chambers to cheer us with the sweetness of their songs. – William E.A. Axon, October 1867

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