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- Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of…
- That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way…
- An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and…
- Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us…
- Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
- Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
- The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
- Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your…
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