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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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 loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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 reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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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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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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