It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Leigh Hunt
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Colors are the smiles of nature.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
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