Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

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Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

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There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

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