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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small…
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Mother's love grows by giving.
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Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul…
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
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No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon…
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We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so…
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple;…
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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it…
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Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the…
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From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral…
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by…
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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Accurst be he that first invented war.
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I have one thing in common with the person who first invented an airplane; he knew one thing that I know...THE SKY…
— London Mond
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Blessing on him that first invented sleep!
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