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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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