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" Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. "

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" Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. "

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" The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. "

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" There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. "

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" A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. "

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" It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. "

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" It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. "

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" Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. "

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