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At the point of the pen is the focus of the mind. - [Quill] Beauty's choicest mirror is an admiring eye. - [Beauty] Death robs the rich and relieves the poor. - [Death] Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small oppor-tunities. - [Happiness] It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. - [Prosperity] Many preachers shine in the pulpit who lose their brilliancy in common conversation. They require the stimulus and magnetism of an audience to render them forcible and eloquent. - [Preaching] Old gossips are usually young flirts gone to seed. - [Gossip] One who uses many periods is a philosopher; many interrogations, a student; many exclamations, a fanatic. - [Style] Pray not too often for great favors, for we stand most in need of small ones. - [Prayer] Resignation is the name of the angel who carries most of our soul's burdens. - [Resignation] Sordid desires are the children of indulgence. - [Desire] The divorced were never truly married. - [Separation] The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else. - [Debt] There are men whose stomachs are the clamorous creditors that sooner or later throw them into bankruptcy. - [Appetite] There is much proud humility and humble pride in the world. - [Pride] Usury is the land-shark and devil-fish of commerce. - [Usury] Wrinkles are beauty's death-lines. - [Wrinkles]
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