Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
- Topic: Age, Desire
- Location: Grand Teton National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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