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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.