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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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