We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,
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