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(14 votes)   It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

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(11 votes)   The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

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(9 votes)   Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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(202 votes)   In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

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(131 votes)   The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

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(89 votes)   A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless -- for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

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(47 votes)   Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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(24 votes)   A woman's life is a history of the affections.

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(23 votes)   Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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(21 votes)   A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

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(19 votes)   A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

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(19 votes)   After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

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(18 votes)   An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

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(17 votes)   Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

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(15 votes)   The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

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