Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.Anna Jameson
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
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Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
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