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- I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we…
- I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
- Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
- It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.'…
- All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
- It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
- Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
- It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie…
- Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
- Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
- Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but…
- Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which…
- The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
- Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
- Money gives me pleasure all the time.
- It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely…
- There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in…
- The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
- It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless…
- Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and…
- Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
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