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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

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Take care of each other.

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Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

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He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

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I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

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...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

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To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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