Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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