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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past. And it is not a course to be wished for them.

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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

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I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

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It is in our minds that we live much of our life.

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Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?

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Born: June 5, 1884
Died: August 27, 1969 (aged 85)
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