Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. - Giovanni Ruffini - Quotesmemo.com

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Giovanni Ruffini

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

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The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

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A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

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Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

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Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

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Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

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It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

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