That great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Viscount Morley

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How to live The human condition

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John Viscount Morley

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English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Politician Writer

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Morley, John. "Aphorisms." 11 Nov. 1887, The Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, Scotland. Address.

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Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

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