"I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world."
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"Reflect upon your present blessings"
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"There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk."
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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"On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . ."
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"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."
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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
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"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."
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"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
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"Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them."
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"There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it."
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"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
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"I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything"
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
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"The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict."
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"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering."
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"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
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"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips."
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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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"The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour."
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