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"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment."
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"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment."
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."


"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."


"To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example."


"Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?"


"When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped."


"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
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