To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
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Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.Sydney Smith
'Heat, ma'am' I said 'it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.'
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I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion.
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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
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