"There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast."

-- O. Henry

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“Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.”

Source : "Andrea Arnold Tackles An Iconic Love Story". Interview with Ella Taylor, www.npr.org. October 9, 2012.
“Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?”

Source : Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1987). “The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press
“The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.”
“Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.”
“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”

Source : Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.133, eBookIt.com
“As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into a river with your pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling no matter how badly you think you want to fall.”
“We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.”
“The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.”

Source : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.215

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