An old bachelor compares life with a shirt button that hangs often by a thread.
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The best kind of closed door is the one you can leave unlocked.
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.
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When a man is crazy about a woman only she can cure him.
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Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.
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The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.
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