A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

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

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Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

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He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

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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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Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

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There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

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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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