Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

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Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

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He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

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after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

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