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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."

"So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does."

"Live always in the best company when you read."

"See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation."

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."

"The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health."

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."

"You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default."