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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
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
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
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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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
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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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves

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