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.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIn politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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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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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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