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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Self-confidence is not hope it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
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Shame is like the weaver's thread if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.
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Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
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As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
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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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Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
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Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.
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Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?
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What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
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Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
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