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/ page 405 of 1205 /The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.
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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
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You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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And How and Where and Who.
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It's clever, but is it Art?
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
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