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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.