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- "A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a ..."
- "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little ..."
- "Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that ..."
- "As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. "
- "Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, ..."
- "Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep ..."
- "Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; ..."
- "Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. "
- "Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to ..."
- "He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. "
- "Heaven never helps the men who will not act. "
- "How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is ..."
- "I have seen nobody since I saw you, but persons in orders. My only varieties ..."
- "I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. "
- "I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so. "
- "In composing, as a general rule, run a pen through every other word you have ..."
- "In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have ..."
- "It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to ..."
- "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do ..."
- "It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving ..."
- "Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole. "
- "Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. "
- "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is ..."
- "Live always in the best company when you read. "
- "Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let ..."
- "Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities ..."
- "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving ..."
- "Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. "
- "Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join ..."
- "No furniture so charming as books. "
- "No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. "
- "Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. "
- "Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. "
- "Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? - how did it ..."
- "The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not ..."
- "The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a ..."
- "To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. "
- "We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 ..."
- "What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? "
- "What you don't know would make a great book. "
- "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be ..."
