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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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