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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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