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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness…
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in…
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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is…
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.…
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other…
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