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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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
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
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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Existence Faith Independent Poetry Reason Rule
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
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
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset

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