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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
[ Humor ]
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A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
[ Mothers ]
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
[ Meaning ]
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Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
[ Prophecy ]
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
[ Obsession ]
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Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
[ Animals ]
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
[ Influence ]
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
[ Facts ]
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Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
[ Sarcasm ]
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Breed is stronger than pasture.
[ Ancestry ]
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
[ Despair ]
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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
[ Motives ]
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
[ Excellence ]
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
[ Genius ]
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
[ Appearance ]
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
[ Ideas ]
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
[ Action ]
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
[ Belief ]
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
[ The future ]
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
[ Conceit ]
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
[ Quarrels ]
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
[ Platitudes ]
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
[ Dreams ]
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
[ Action ]
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
[ Getting Ahead ]
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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
[ Repetition ]
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
[ Integrity ]
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Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
[ Kisses and Kissing ]
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
[ Change ]
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
[ Marriage ]
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Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
[ Men ]
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Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
[ Language ]
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
[ Pity ]
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
[ Compliments ]
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
[ Achievement ]
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
[ Expectation ]
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
[ Giving ]
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
[ Evil ]
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
[ Recreation ]
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
[ Martyrdom ]
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
[ Deeds and Good Deeds ]
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
[ Deeds and Good Deeds ]
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
[ Impartiality ]
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
[ Words ]
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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
[ Wit ]
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