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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke. We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. |





