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In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.
Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.
if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.
People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.
-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.
"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.
We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.
I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.