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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
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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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
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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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule

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