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Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

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People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination
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Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
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Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
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I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
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Avoid shame, but do not seek glory nothing so expensive as glory.
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
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Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.
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