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"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Life is an unbroken succession of false situations." »Thornton Wilder
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"Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place." »Field Marshall John French
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"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think." »Bernard Mannes Baruch
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"There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures." »Josiah Gilbert Holland
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"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization." »Sylvia Levi
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"The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled." »Oliver Goldsmith
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