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A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

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God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

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A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

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