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My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

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No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to b...more

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It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

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To be awake is to be alive.

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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observ...more

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us ...more

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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meetin...more

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The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

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In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do no...more

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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three tim...more

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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in...more