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You have only to watch other ill-natured people to resolve to be unlike them.

— 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.

Notes of Thought (1883)

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.

Notes of Thought (1883)

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.

Notes of Thought (1883)

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