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Life by Ethel Mannin

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It isn’t enough merely to warm both hands at the fire of life – though not so very many people succeed in doing even that these days – the art of living lies in warming one’s whole body and to be able to complete each new day with the thought that if one died on this day or the next, one would have had, as we say, a pretty good run for the money – and the pains.

taken from: 
Confessions and Impressions Chapter XII.1
Author: 
Ethel Mannin