If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

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The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

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