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Vote:   | A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. |
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Vote: | A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. |
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Vote: | A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. |
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Vote: | Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. |
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Vote: | All nature wears one universal grin. |
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Vote: | Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. |
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Vote: | Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. |
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Vote: | Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul. |
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Vote: | Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. |
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Vote: | His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. |
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Vote: | If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. |
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Vote: | Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. |
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Vote: | Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. |
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Vote: | Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. |
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Vote: | One fool at least in every married couple. |
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Vote: | Read in order to live. |
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Vote: | Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. |
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Vote: | Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. |
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Vote: | There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. |
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Vote: | We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. |
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Vote: | When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Where the law ends tyranny begins. |
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Vote: | Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. |
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Vote: | Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. |
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Vote: | You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. |