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The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

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In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past. ↗

— Franz Boas

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But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. ↗

— Bob Edwards

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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ↗

— A. P. Herbert

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