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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
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
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
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
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
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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
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
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity

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