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It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

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It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.

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All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

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Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

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It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

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Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

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