My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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