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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.

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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

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Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

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Lord, when the wise men came from far,Led to thy cradle by a star,Then did the shepherds too rejoice,Instructed by thy angel's voice.Blest were the wise men in their skill,And shepherds in their harmless will.

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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear;

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Stand close around,ye Stygian set, With Dirce in one boat convey'd,...

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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

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We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

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For, surely, surely, where Your voice and graces are, Nothing of death can any feel or know.

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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art:

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