For once that he remembers exactly what work produces his wages and exactly what wages produce his meals, he reflects ten times that it is a fine day or it is a queer world, or wonders whether life is worth living, or wonders whether marriage is a failure, or is pleased and puzzled with his own children, or remembers his own youth, or in any such f

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Je ne doute pas que le temps fasse le tri entre les bonnes et les mauvaises graines ; et quand enfin je planterai, je serai sans doute moins déçu. Mais j’aimerais dire ceci à mes semblables, une bonne fois pour toutes : vivez libre et sans entraves le plus longtemps possible. Il y a peu de différences entre être pieds et poings liés à une ferme ou

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The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best s

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