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Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.
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My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones - Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
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Never lay others under an obligation; it generally obliges them to detest you.
The maxims of Marmaduke -
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbour for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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