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• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
• What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes…
• Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the…
• Joy is the best of wine.
• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without…
• I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
• Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
• There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and…
• Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The…
• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of…

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