"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
"Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned."
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Source: 1878 An Inland Voyage,'At Maubeuge'.
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