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“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
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“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“If he was not commonplace, it was through nothing remarkable in his mind, which was simply clear and practical, but through some combination of qualities of the heart that made men trust him, and women call him sweet--a word of theirs which conveys otherwise indefinable excellences.”
― The Rise of Silas Lapham
― The Rise of Silas Lapham
“Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys position at once. I don't say that it isn't all right. The world generally knows what it's about, and knows how to drive a bargain. I dare say that it makes the new rich pay too much. But there's no doubt but money is to the fore now. It is the romance, the poetry of our age. It's the thing that chiefly strikes the imagination. The Englishmen who come here are more curious about the great new millionaires than about anyone else, and they respect them more. It's all very well. I don't complain of it.”
― The Rise of Silas Lapham
― The Rise of Silas Lapham
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