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It was extraordinary that, whenever he tried to take a siesta, his thoughts were always so depressing. Perhaps the small hours of the afternoon were in affinity with those of the night and released similar bogeys.

We all find faults, but those who look for gratitude find the ugliest.

To expect the worst from people and events is to enjoy delicious surprices; to expect the best is to receive disappointments.

The lesson he had learnt, that all of us are alone, fighting for ourselves in a world that is daily growing more savage

There are times when [...] the remaining years, forty or fifty of them, streatch out ahead like the steps of an infinitely tiering staircase.