To take what there is in life and use it without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that this doubtless is the right way to live.
Henry James
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He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
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True happiness we are told consists in getting out of ones self but the point is not only to get out you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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