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A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.
It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
There is a realm where the rainbow never fades
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
Another year has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents in the air,
Are dying to an echo.
Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.
A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.
