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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to…
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call…
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise,…
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch…
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate…
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children,…
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How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them;…
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the…
— Saint Basil
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With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
— William S. Burroughs
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.
— Unknown Author
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And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this…
— Charles Dickens
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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an…
— Johannes Kepler
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