A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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