The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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When India was explored and the wonderful riches of Indian theological literature found that dispelled once and for all the dream about Christianity being the sole revelation.
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My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
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Common sense is the wick of the candle.
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laugther.
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