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You lose such a lot of time just sleeping... when you might just be living!... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
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Oh, of course I'd be breathing all the time I was doing those things, Aunt Polly, but I wouldn't be living. You breathe all the time you're asleep, but you aren't living. I mean living — doing the things you want to do... Just breathing isn't living!
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Born:
December 19, 1868
Died:
May 21, 1920
(aged 51)
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