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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

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Human nature is above all things lazy.

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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

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Friendships are discovered rather than made.

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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

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A woman's health is her capital.

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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