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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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
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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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear

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