"When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one."
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"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage."
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"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."
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"Children are certainly too good to be true."
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"Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy."
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"Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth."
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"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity."
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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator."
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"When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys."
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"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
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"It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire."
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"To forget oneself is to be happy."
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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
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"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
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"The world has no room for cowards."
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"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."
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"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see."
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"It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes."
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"A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect."
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"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
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