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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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 book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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
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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
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
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich

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