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“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
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