Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.Augustus Hare
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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