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" That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. "

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" Breed is stronger than pasture. "

" In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. "

" It is never too late to be what you might have been. "

" It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. "

" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "

" To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. "

" What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. "

" We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. "

" No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. "

" Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. "

" It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. "

" We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. "

" Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. "

" Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. "

" You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. "

" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

" The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. "

" An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. "

" Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. "

" No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. "

" Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. "

" The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. "

" Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. "

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" The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. "

" Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? "