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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
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
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
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
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Better Development Law Progress Society
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
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
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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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Charity Money Stand
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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

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