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| It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity. | | Modesty | |
| It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. | | Uncategorized | |
| Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. | | Uncategorized | |
| Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers | | Uncategorized | |
| Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. | | Life | |
| Make the most of the best and the least of the worst | | Uncategorized | |
| Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. | | Men | |
| Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly. | | Food | |
| Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. | | Life; Marriage | |
| Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes. | | Marriage | |
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| Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. | | Uncategorized | |
| Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. | | Uncategorized | |
| No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature | | Literature | |
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| No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. | | Uncategorized | |
| Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian | | Uncategorized | |
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| Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. | | Cannibalism | |
| Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? | | Uncategorized | |
