“ Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. ”
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“ What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. ”
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“ Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ”
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“ Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal superabundance. ”
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“ Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land. ”
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“ Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. ”
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“ The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader. ”
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“ There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ”
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“ He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. ”
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“ There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ”
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“ Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them. ”
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“ There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ”
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“ Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct. ”
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“ An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports. ”
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“ Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it. ”
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“ What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. ”
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“ Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal superabundance. ”
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“ Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it. ”
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“ What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. ”
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“ The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. ”
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