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Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.
All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.
bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.
Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.
If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.