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Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock
Age: 79 †
Born: 1834
Born: April 30
Died: 1913
Died: May 28
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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
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A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
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Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
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