Giovanni Ruffini Quotes

#1. A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

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#2. More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.

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#3. The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

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#4. Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

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#5. Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.

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#6. Husband and wife,
so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

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#7. If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

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#8. Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

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#9. Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

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#10. Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

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#11. Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

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#12. Offended self-love never forgives.

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#13. Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

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#14. All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

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#15. A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.

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#16. Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

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