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The sharp employ the sharp.
Malice blunts the point of wit.
Humor is the harmony of the heart.
Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
Nature designed us to be of good cheer.
We are all slaves to the shining metal.
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
That questionable superfluity small beer.
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.