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In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.

— Charles Buxton Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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Nothing gives life a finer touch of grace, than the presence in the family circle of a lovely girl of seventeen.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.

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The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

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