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“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
― Voltaire

“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson