Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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There is a paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
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