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Quote by Lord Byron
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep,

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. – Lord Byron

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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. – Lord Byron

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I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. – Lord Byron

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas

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