In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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