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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions,…
— Bernard Baruch
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame;…
— Edmund Burke
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must…
— Albert Camus
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
— Hector Berlioz
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
— Saadi
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
— Ralph Ellison
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility…
— Greil Marcus
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Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself…
— Thomas a Kempis
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You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that…
— Ian Curtis
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