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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers."

"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."

"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope."

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have."

"When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars."
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