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/ page 1101 of 1205 /In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Books are a finer world within the world.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
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