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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
Certain opuscules, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year.
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