No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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