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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
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I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
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gone before To that unknown and silent shore,
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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Lawyers I suppose were children once.
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,...
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
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Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
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