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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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