Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

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All the disconnected people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

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Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.

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We are, all of us, calling and calling across the incalculable gulfs which separate us even from our nearest friends.

170

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

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