Quote #7386
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quote #19044
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
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No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human...
Quote #25907
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Quote #8289
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt...
Quote #14552
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small...
Quote #7754
Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue–a...
Quote #5444
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
Quote #22842
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but...
Quote #10316
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but...