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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.