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Duty only frowns when you flee from it; follow it, and it smiles upon you. - [Duty] If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich! - [Time] Life is an art in which too many remain only dilettantes. - [Life] Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time. - [Sleep] The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that. - [Forgiveness] White hairs are the crests of foam which cover the sea after the tempest. - [Age]
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