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We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'
— Sterling Hayden
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