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We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

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Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

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A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

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When congress is in session no American is safe.

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