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Monday, August 22, 2016

On Life in Europe and America, by Mark Twain

"Just in this one matter lies the main charm of life in Europe - comfort. In America, we hurry - which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for tomorrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us, and talk and worry over them when we ought to be restoring our wrecked bodies and brains with sleep. We burn up our energies with these excitements, and we either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's Prime in Europe."
-Mark Twain, the Innocents Abroad

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