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" A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. "
Look
Kind
Accomplish
" A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. "
Grave
Best
Always
" A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. "
Brush
Hair
Head
" A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. "
Hypocrite
Too
Respect
" Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. "
Essence
Christianity
Almost
" An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. "
Man
Honest Man
Order
" A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. "
Stone
Believe
Devil
" Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. "
May
Made
Fool
" A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. "
Scholar
Dead
Language
" As is our confidence, so is our capacity. "
Capacity
Confidence
Our
" A wise traveler never despises his own country. "
Country
Wise
Travel
" Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. "
Secrets
Us
Souls
" Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. "
Weaknesses
Other
People
" Dandyism is a variety of genius. "
Variety
Genius
" Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. "
Time
Country
Fight
" Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. "
Worth
Gone
Friendship
" Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. "
Talk
Better
Lazy
" Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. "
Love
Angry
Other
" Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! "
Trust
Friendship
Life
" Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. "
Rules
Own
Opinion
" Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. "
Vibrating
Flows
Motion
" Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. "
Pride
Living
Great
" Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. "
Friendship
Intimacy
More
" Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. "
Want
Humanity
Like
" Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. "
Good
Temper
Features
" Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. "
Harmony
Been
Soul
" Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. "
Been
Expression
Grace
" Grace in women has more effect than beauty. "
Grace
More
Effect
" Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. "
Everything
Grace
Pain
" Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. "
Acts
Thoughts
Practice
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