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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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