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| "The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell | | Husbands; Wives; Words | |
| A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one | | Uncategorized | |
| A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims | | Uncategorized | |
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| Earth is here so kind [Australia], that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. | | Earth | |
| Every rose has its thorn:- you never find a woman without pins and needles | | Uncategorized | |
| Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together | | Uncategorized | |
| Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. | | Uncategorized | |
| He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks | | Uncategorized | |
| He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain | | Uncategorized | |
| I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family | | Uncategorized | |
| If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment | | Uncategorized | |
| If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest | | Uncategorized | |
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| Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself | | Friends | |
| Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. | | Uncategorized | |
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