"None can lead this life who are..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.
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“The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.”
“The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
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“Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.”
“Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob.”
“Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves”
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“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”
“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”
“Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.”