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Quote #1:   "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Quote #2:   "Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
Quote #3:   "We only do well the things we like doing."
Quote #4:   "I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."
Quote #5:   "The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."
Quote #6:   "A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."
Quote #7:   "It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship."
Quote #8:   "There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."