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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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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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