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I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

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James Mackintosh

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

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The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

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A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

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