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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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