Life is livable because we ...

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
 Havelock Ellis

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
 Havelock Ellis
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 Havelock Ellis
The mother is the child's supreme parent.
 Havelock Ellis
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
 Havelock Ellis