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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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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
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset

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