Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

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Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

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