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"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"There is no education like adversity."
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts."
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"Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor."
Honesty
"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
Man
"All nature wears one universal grin."
Nature
"The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim."
Power
"A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!"
Nature
"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."
Books
"When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on."
Power
"When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief."
Family
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
Love
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