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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
It is better to fail in originality that to succeed in imitation.
This is the quote I've lived by for 2 1/2 years.
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
"A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk!"
No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
My name is Ishmael.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
We can not live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and come back to us as effects.
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