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“This prolonging of a man’s life doesn’t interest me when he’s done his work and has done it pretty well.”
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
“we are always personally under an agitating pressure and cloud of anxiety.”
I am as one standing on a wreck and can hardly see when we shall be afloat again.”
Burnham, “You know my dislike for saying ‘Good-bye’ and were prepared to find that I had skipped this morning. To say that I was sorry to leave you all is to put it only one half as strongly as I feel.
“miscalculated his powers of endurance, and he died a martyr to his ambition for fame and prominence.”
