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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters
Life, if well lived, is long enough
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.

The Fountain
There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble living and the noble dead.

The Prelude
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life.

Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
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