Whatever is genuine in social ...

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.
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 Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
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 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.
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 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.
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 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.
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 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.
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 Henry Theodore Tuckerman