Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements yet these are in truth very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
