A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.Samuel Johnson
When any fit of anxiety or gloominess or perversion of the mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints but exert your whole care to hide it. By endeavoring to hide it, you will drive it away.
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Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
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Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happiness.
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