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We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.
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absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
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O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest, When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.
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A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.
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If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.
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Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
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Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of eccentricity it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.
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There can be - there ought to be - no medium course a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous in the second, simply silly.
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No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.
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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
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Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
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God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.
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Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.
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Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.
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