Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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