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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees…
• My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music.…
• Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
• The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
• Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
• A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
• Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have…
• If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
• There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
• There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
• If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever…
• To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

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