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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
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A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
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