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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning

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