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A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
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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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time

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