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/ page 270 of 1205 /Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
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Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
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If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
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Colors are the smiles of nature.
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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
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Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in, Time you thief, who love to get, Sweets into your list, you put in, Say you’re weary, say you’re sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I’m growing old, but add Jenny kissed me.
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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
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The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands.
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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