To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
AGNES REPPLIERBut self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Friendship takes time.
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