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"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."
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"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."
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"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."


"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."


"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."


"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."


"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
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