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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith

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Brevity
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? – Horace

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Later never exists. – Author Unknown

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain

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