#life

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. ↗

— David Hume

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Custom is the great guide to human life. ↗

— David Hume

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The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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