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CytatyUnknownTo live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived wellTo save time is to lengthen life. To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck. Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words. Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them. We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct. We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir. When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words. When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment. When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are. |
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