Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
For I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly.
— from Concord Days by Amos Bronson Alcott
O God, why am not I myself in such health as in my journey thither three years ago!
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle
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