“In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.”
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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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