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I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.: Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.: Quintilian
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.: Paul Eldridge
It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Joy, temperance, and repose, Slam the door on the doctor's nose.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)

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