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A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real value of what is contained therein. - [Loveliness] A mouse-trap; easy to enter, but not easy to get out of. - [Law] Contagious enthusiasm. - [Inspiration] Fearless gentleness is the most beautiful of feminine attractions born of modesty and love. - [Gentleness] Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface. - [Genius] Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. - [Civilization] The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame. - [Blushes] The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. - [Charity] The glow of the angel in woman. - [Blushes] The scapegoat which we make responsible for all our crimes and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible, when we have no wish to strive against it. - [Destiny] The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it speaks at once to the imagination. - [Reproach] What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? - [Flowers] Young Crime's finishing-school. - [Prison]
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