A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. - Hamilton Wright Mabie

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. . . no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

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