“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.”
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
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