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This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

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Such and so various are the tastes of men.

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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

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I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

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The less routine the more life.

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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

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