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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.
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Fine natures are like fine poems a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
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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.
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Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter
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O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
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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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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
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To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!
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It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: No room for your ladyship pass on.
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If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
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Nothing ages like laziness.
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The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.
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He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.
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