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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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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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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
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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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
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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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

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