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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

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Love prefers twilight to daylight.

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 29th, 1809

Died: October 7th, 1894

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