Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

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