"The expected always happens"
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"I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms."
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"As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this."
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"Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man."
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"Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man."
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"The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires."
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"To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence."
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"Everything in this world depends upon will."
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"Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality."
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"In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity."
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"Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?"
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"Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government."
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"Female friendships are of rapid growth."
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"Tobacco is the tomb of love."
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"The English nation is never so great as in adversity."
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"The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs."
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"I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour."
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"Protection is not a principle but an expedient"
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"The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world."
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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad."
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