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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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 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
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
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
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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