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To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.
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If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
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If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
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Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
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Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.
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In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
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