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Mans real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that

Mans real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. – George Bernard Shaw

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

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