It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.Samuel Butler
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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