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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift, as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

All that is not given is lost.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.