Here’s a comforting thought for you, Peter. However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) English comic actor, film director, composer
My Autobiography, ch. 22 (1964)
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What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist
Pensées (1838) [ed. Auster (1983)]
All the works of Nature are Miracles, and nothing makes them appear otherwise but our Familiarity with them.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
Prose Observations. “Nature” [ed. de Quehen (1979)]
