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Accident is veiled necessity. - [Necessity] Age either transfigures or petrifies. - [Age] An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never. - [Opinion] As soon as fashion is universal, it is out of date. - [Fashion] Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal. - [Originality] Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by dash of humor. - [Generosity] Genius points the way; talent pursues it. - [Genius] Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. - [Grace] How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. - [Joy] How wise must one be to be always kind. - [Kindness] In every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude. - [Joy] Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name. - [Kindness] Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence. - [Opportunity] One thought cannot awake without awakening others. - [Thought] The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. - [Imagination] There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great. - [Friendship] There is only one proof of ability,--action. - [Action] To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much impossible. - [Contentment] We should always forgive,--the penitent for their sake, the impenitent for our own. - [Forgiveness] We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for. - [Patience] What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. - [Beauty] When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. - [Opportunity]
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