It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

-- John Steinbeck

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-- John Steinbeck

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Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. Usually they stood silently for a while and breathed in peacefulness. Since both were shy they never talked about themselves. Neither knew about the other at all.

-- John Steinbeck

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No one wants advice – only corroboration.

-- John Steinbeck

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A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot

-- John Steinbeck

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