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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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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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