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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound

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