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A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we: Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany-Tree.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.

Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray,