Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

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There is no such things as ""best"" in the world of individuals.

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

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