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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
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
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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
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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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value

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