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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."

"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."

"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."

"We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest."

"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."
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