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