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• Life is ours. We live it our way.
• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
  -- Logan P. Smith...
• Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
  -- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)...
• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed.
  A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated....
• Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire.
  -- Duchesse de Prasli...
• We are not punished for our sins, but by them.