#31
1852
How To Shorten Life
Lead a life of enfeebled, stupid laziness, and keep the mind in a round of unnatural excitement by reading trashy novels.
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Begin in childhood on tea, and go on, from one step to another, through coffee, chewing tobacco, and drinking.
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Marry in haste, get an uncongenial companion, and live the rest of life in mental dissatisfaction.
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Eat without time to masticate food.
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Follow an unhealthy occupation because money can be made by it.
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Contrive to keep a continual worry about something or nothing.
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Retire at midnight, and rise at noon.
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Gormandize between meals.
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Give way to fits of anger.
[Thomas’s]
-1871-
How to Live Long
How to Live Long
Another person, who lived to the great age of 110 years, said, in reply to the inquiry, “How he lived so long?”: “I have always been kind and obliging; have never quarreled with any one; have eaten and drunk only to satisfy hunger and thirst, and have never been idle.”
[Thomas’s]
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2 comments:
Hi,
Thank you for the post, both in terms of content and images... I love the pictures of those couples. What beauty lies in old age!
Grace and Peace,
Anne Denney
Thankyou so much for these posts. The information is very helpful and encouraging.
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