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 | "Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world
surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed
as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood." | |
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Found in the topic Courtship.
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| "Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each
other." | |
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Found in the topic Pain.
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| "People who are always taking care of their health are like misers,
who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to
enjoy." | |
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Found in the topic Health.
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| "Whenever a man talks loudly against religion,?always suspect that it
is not his reason, but his passions which have got the better of his
creed." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is),
is but a different name for conversation." | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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| "The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever
with the acquisition of it." | |
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Found in the topic Knowledge.
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| "?Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,?and of
obstinacy in a bad one." | |
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Found in the topic Obstinacy.
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| "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." | |
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Found in the topic Provide.
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| "Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it
lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your
defeat." | |
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Found in the topic Right.
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