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Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
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August
Summer
Weather
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
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Inspirational
Motivational
Success
Desert
Succeed
Talent
Intended
Line
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When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
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Men
Law
Religious
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Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
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Science
Believe
Facts
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
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Respect
Creatures
Display
Manners
Momentary
Fellow
Fellow Creatures
Virtues
Qualities
Shadows
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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
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Running
Composing
Ideas
No Idea
Vigor
Writing
General
General Rule
Word
Pen
Rule
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He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.
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Funny
Humor
Children
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Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Sydney Smith / Scientist
Alliances
Circulation
Errors
Mistake
Alliance
Extensive
Great Deal
Obtain
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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Sydney Smith / Scientist
Inspirational
Motivational
Acting
Celebration
Illusion
Infinite
Within
Contain
Fact
Performance
Possibilities
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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
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Moving
Opposite
Directions
Joined
Pair
Punishing
Resembles
Separated
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His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Enemy
Might
Silence
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It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
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Flexible
Generous
Ready
Shame
Virtue
Good Always Anything
Base
Gained
Moderately
Safest
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To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
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Cold
Danger
Thinking
Stand
Anything
Back
Doing
Through
Jump
Well
Scramble
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
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Anniversary
Marriage
Smile
Moving
Opposites
Opposite
Always
Anyone
Between
Them
Cannot
Often
Directions
Joined
Pair
Punishing
Resembles
Separated
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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Intellect
Mankind
Preaching
Constantly
Forgetting
Fortify
Object
Remind
Resolutions
Supply
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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
Sydney Smith / Scientist
Berkeley
Destroyed
Fate
Volume
Time World Mind
Bishop
Mr
Experienced
Time Mind World
Hand
Remained
Similar
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith / Scientist
Courage
Great
Effort
Graves
Lost
Obscure
Talent
Timidity
Want
World
Little
Men Great World
Them
Every
First
Deal
Day
Every Day
Making
Sends
Whose
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People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination
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Loyalty
Imagination
Greatest Love
People
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
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Beauty
Running
Trying
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Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
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New Year
Fifty
Three
Years
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It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.
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Wise
Powerful
Strong
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The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
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Life
Food
Science
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Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.
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Life
Children
Mistake
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[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.
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Science
Ease
Hate
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.
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Confidence
Courage
Nature
Smile
Fear
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The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.
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Dinner
Mistake
Writing
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