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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
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“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
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“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
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