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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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