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• America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
• A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
• What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
• Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
• Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with…
• She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part…
• God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less…
• It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of…
• So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
• The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
• The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity…
• Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

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