“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
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“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ”
― Emerson's Prose and Poetry
― Emerson's Prose and Poetry
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
― If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
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