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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Henry Ward Beecher

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We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him saying, A man is born.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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