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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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
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
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
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
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich

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