We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.Jean Bruyere
Criticism is often not a science it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
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The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
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We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
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