To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.
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We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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