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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with 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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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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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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