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• A mother is the truest friend we have...
• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
• The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.
• It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the…
• Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and…
• He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of…
• Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They…
• There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
• The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this…
• Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and…
• No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time…
• I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and…

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