The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving
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- Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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- Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
- Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.