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Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal.

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How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.

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I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in…

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There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

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Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

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