What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

People hate as they love unreasonably.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

An evil person is like a dirty window they never let the light shine through.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

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