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You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

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It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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We are so very 'umble.

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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