Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
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Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reachFrancois Fenelon
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied
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There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power
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The past but lives in written words a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
Francois Fenelon
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
Francois Fenelon
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