Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

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‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

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Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

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Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

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To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live

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