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• How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world- of Him who has created, and who provides for the joy even of insects, as carefully as if He were their Father!
  -- Richte...
• A gentleman of our days is one who has money enough to do what every fool would do if he could afford i
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• He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much
  who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little childre...
• We do not envy those who have the capacity to pray, whereas we are filled with envy of the possessors of goods, of those who know wealth and fame.
  Strange that we resign ourselves to someone's salvation and not to what fugitive advantages he may enjoy....
• I turn on my television set. I see a young lady who goes under the guise of being a Christia
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• He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
  -- Giacomo Leopardi...