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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
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
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.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence

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