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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
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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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset

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