Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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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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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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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 with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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