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

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
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
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
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
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor

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