Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECommon sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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 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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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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.
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