“Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.”
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“Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.”
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“Learn that the present hour alone is man's.”
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“Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.”
Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims
“The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.”
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Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“Our whole life is like a play.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson