It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.Josh Billings
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
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There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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