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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

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