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- Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a…
- The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
- Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
- The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of…
- To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't…
- Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last,…
- Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more…
- [I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.…
- The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract.
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