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If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care read more
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a read more
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for read more
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all read more
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
