Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun it falls tenderly

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

A father may turn his back on his child brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies husbands

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven spreading itself like oil

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

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    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

    More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

    More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

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