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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected
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If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
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The whole point depends upon his being at once humble enough to wonder, and haughty enough to defy.