Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

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