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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Mystery is not profoundness.
Anger is practical awkwardness.
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
A hug is worth a thousand words.
He who knows himself knows others.
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
There are male as well as female gossips.
You cannot separate charity and religion.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
There can be no Christianity where there is no charity
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight
Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
