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• We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

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  Done, Satisfaction, Satisfied

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• There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

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  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

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• When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

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  Reading, Library, Steps

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• I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

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  Sorrow, Delay, Letters

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• long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

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  Travel, Kindness, Lying

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• I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

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  Time, Cutting, Hands

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• Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

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  Perfection, Faults

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• The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

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  Desire, Way, Common

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• ... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

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  Journey, Journey Through Life, Ought

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• There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

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  Pain, Real, Light

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• It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

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  Eye, Sorrow, Tears

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• good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

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  Evil, Different, Good And Evil

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• We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

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  Hope, Would Be, Consolation

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• Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.
  True friendship is never serene.

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  True Friend, Real, Tears

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• Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

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  Religion, Littles

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• Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

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  Atmosphere, Torches, Occupation

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• there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!

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  People, Helping, Acknowledge

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• It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

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  Sometimes, Bottom, Slips

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• Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

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  Rain, Book, Order

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• If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

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  Thinking, Feelings, Chocolate

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• Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

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  Book, Reading, Giving

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• If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

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  Patience, Giving, Optimism

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• . . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

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  Men, Thinking, Wish

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• Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

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  Religious, People, Confession

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• I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

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  Love, Dream, Love You

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