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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out…

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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of… — William Penn
There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who… — Michael Lewis
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more… — Stanford Moore
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity… — Margaret Cavendish
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut.… — Tony Kornheiser
Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life? — Boethius
The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he… — Thomas Jefferson
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson
No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is… — Dudley North
If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be… — Dudley North
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate. — Samuel Richardson

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