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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."

"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."

"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"

"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."

"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."

"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies."
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