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- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
- It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring…
- To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift…
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
- No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I…
- There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose…
- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to…
- What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so…
- To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
- So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall…
- Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than…
- Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die
- Nudists are people who wear one-button suits
- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
- Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
- A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other
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