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• war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

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  Peace, War, Break Out

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• We are always on the side of those who speak last.

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  Lasts, Sides, Speak

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• winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

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  Spring, Winter, Past

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• Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

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  Bears, Reason, Combat

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• Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

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  Peace, War, Sides

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• . . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

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  Pain, Distance, Evil

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• In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

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  Truth, Simple, Sublime

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• Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.

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  Spring, Sadness, Thinking

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• Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

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  Art, Doctors, Physicians

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• I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

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  Fitness, Exercise, Want

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• [After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

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  Fancy, Beard, Feminine

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• I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

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  Writing, Nonsense, Wit

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• Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

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  Opportunity, Use, Sides

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• We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

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  People, Abuse, Motive

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• Death makes us all equal.

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  Equal

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• There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Lovely

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• Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

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  Stars, Long, Sometimes

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• Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

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  Coffee, Passing Away, Taste

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• The world has no long injustices.

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  Long, World, Injustice

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• . . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

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  Today, Common, Surprising

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• It is freezing fit to split a stone.

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  Winter, Splits, Stones

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• When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

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  God, Providence

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• We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

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  Noise

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