“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
