"The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then."
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"There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question."
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"The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life."
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"Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."
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"Love supreme defies all sophistry."
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"Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another."
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"We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."
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"That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause."
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"There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer."
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"Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness."
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"The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."
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"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."
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"Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
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"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."
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"All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other."
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"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."
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"It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much."
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