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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

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