...a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

Abraham Verghese
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  2. The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll...

  3. Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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