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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life ar

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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Children are the anchors of a mothers life. – Sophocles

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Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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