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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear;

if it is happy it is horrible to lose,

So the one is pretty equal to the other.

If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Life — a tragedy for those, who feels, and a comedy for those, who thinks.

Life — is the thing people are trying hard to save and least of all take care of. .

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.