There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.
Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
1792–1870 Switzerland
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There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
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There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
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There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
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True courage is like a kite: a contrary wind raises it higher.
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Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.
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In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
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The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
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Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt—just a little?
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A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
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Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
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Let us respect gray hairs, but, above all, our own.
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Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
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That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
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We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.
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