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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
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
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
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself

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