Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too."
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
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