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- If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to…
- It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes…
- I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the…
- Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
- Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness…
- One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .…
- They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
- My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
- Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never…
- Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil,…
- I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to…
- I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked…
- Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so…
- It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim…
- From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a…
- Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
- If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of…
- ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably…
- The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is…
- Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
- A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
- Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.
- Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
- A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.
- A man must take the fat with the lean.
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