Giovanni Ruffini Quotes
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Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.
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Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.
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Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.
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All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.
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The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.
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Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
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Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.
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A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
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If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
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Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!
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Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.
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Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
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Offended self-love never forgives.
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The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
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Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
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More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.
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