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Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.

A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.

Husband and wife,
so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Offended self-love never forgives.