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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one…
— James Allen
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very…
— Henry Beston
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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
— Lord Chesterfield
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CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you.…
— Rajneesh
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is…
— Joe Abercrombie
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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when…
— Gustave Flaubert
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If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble,…
— Isaac of Nineveh
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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his…
— Mircea Eliade
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Man becomes what he thinks about
— Unknown Author
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