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Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Quotes: ... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.
         

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.


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O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.



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With faces like dead lovers who died true.



Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.



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according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.



Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots



A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.



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It is not work that kills, but "worry."



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Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.



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How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.



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