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Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Samuel Smiles
Marriage, Government, Giving

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

Samuel Smiles
Women, Giving, Quality
Samuel Smiles (1871). “Character”, p.310

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Samuel Smiles
Father, Giving, Mentor

England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.

Samuel Smiles
Men, Numbers, Giving
"Lives of the Engineers". Book by Samuel Smiles, 1861.

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