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  1. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
     
    [Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/

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  2. A quotation from Montaigne

    Life’s usefulness is not in its length, but in its use: some who have lived a long time have lived but little — take heed of it while you are still in it. For you to have lived enough lies in your will, not in the number of your years.
     
    [L’utilité du vivre n’est pas en l’espace: elle est en l’usage. Tel a vescu long temps, qui a peu vescu. Attendez vous y pendant que vous y estes. Il gist en vostre volonté, non au nombre des ans, que vous ayez assez vescu.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), “That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]” (1572-03) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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