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- "A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known ..."
- "A child's a plaything for an hour. "
- "A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. "
- "A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, ..."
- "A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a ..."
- "Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. "
- "Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome ..."
- "Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. "
- "Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. "
- "Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I ..."
- "For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by ..."
- "He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. "
- "He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. "
- "I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving ..."
- "I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if ..."
- "I love to lose myself in other men's minds. "
- "I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. "
- "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. "
- "Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. "
- "Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in ..."
- "My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. "
- "Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. "
- "Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. "
- "Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. "
- "Presents, I often say, endear absents. "
- "Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. "
- "Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see ..."
- "She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. "
- "Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to ..."
- "The beggar wears all colors fearing none. "
- "The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have ..."
- "The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet ..."
- "The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should ..."
- "The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. "
- "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. "
- "To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. "
- "We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. ..."
- "Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though ..."
- "What is reading, but silent conversation. "
