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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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 the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk

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