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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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