There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
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The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
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Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry -- every man of every nation has done that -- 'tis the living up to it that's difficult.
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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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