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Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.
No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.
Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!
Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!