The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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