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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."

"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
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"A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty."

"To see great result let your conversations reveals ultimate priority of restoring the kingdom."

"In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an 'addendum in' my life verses the 'agenda of' my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise."

"Life wants you to know that people are more important than things."
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