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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a reven...more

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The essence of love is kindness.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting ...more