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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

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The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

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If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

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There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

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There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

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One fool at least in every married couple.

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All nature wears one universal grin.

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