"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."

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"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."

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"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."

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"Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire."

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"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

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"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."

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"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence."

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"He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two."

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"Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!"

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"Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy."

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"Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us."

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"The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better."

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"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

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"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew."

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"If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe."

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"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

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"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."

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"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

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"Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad."

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"There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast."

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"I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort."

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"With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other."

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"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."

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"Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains."

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"Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse."

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"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

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"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in."

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

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"When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste."

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"Lord, keep my memory green."

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"Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

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"Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

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"Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!"

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"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

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"They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat."

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"Philosophers are only men in armor after all."

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"The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!"

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"It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand."

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"It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last."

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"Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept."

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