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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
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
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
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
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
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
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
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction

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