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Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose—easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.

Donald Grant Mitchell

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Donald Grant Mitchell

Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.

Donald Grant Mitchell

Donald Grant Mitchell

Donald Grant Mitchell

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Born: April 12, 1822

Died: December 15, 1908 (aged 86)

Bio: Donald Grant Mitchell was an American essayist and novelist.

Known for:

Reveries of a Bachelor (1850)
Dream Life (1848)
The Works Of Donald G. Mitchell (1907)
Fudge doings (1855)
English lands, letters and kings .. (1889)

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