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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves

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