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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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