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The ghost of poverty is more dreadful than poverty itself.

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A religion of details is a fruit tree which produces only blossoms.

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Each grain in the universe is a unit, remove but one and chaos will follow.

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Hills sunlit with promise are easier to traverse than the level road upon which hope died.

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It is as easy for the poor man to pluck money from the rich as for the missionary to pick the pocket’s of a naked savage.

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A tainted heart soils the sweetest lip.

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Exchange the virus of hate for the antidote, love.

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A woman prefers a fervent lover to a cold husband.

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A fickle woman may conquer the most constant soldier.

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The begrimed soul cannot be hidden with a white-wash brush.

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Our efforts should be to harmonize, not simply to change.

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The most precious gem is found in the most worthless sand.

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The Senate joined to the Commons is an impotent man wedded to a vigorous maid.

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The bombastic egotist floats on the crest of prosperity while the philosopher starves in his tub.

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The priest counsels men in the sterile present to feed upon a pregnant future.  Tomorrows dinner never yet fed a hungry man.

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All the good in a human heart can never die.

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You cannot denude a woman of her masked thoughts.

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Diplomacy is cultivated in men and bred in women.

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He who would pluck contentment must abandon force.

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To console a widow is more agreeable than to court a maid.

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The man who stains the purity of a woman tarnishes his own soul.

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It is difficult to distinguish the fleshy lie from the ghostly truth.

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The private ownership of land is crystalized in the question “Is the unborn child an heir or a bastard?”

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Love of the artistic does not account for the crookedness of men, though the curve is the only true line of beauty.