Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
God said, 'Let us make man in our image.' Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
Malice blunts the point of wit.
Man owes two solemn debts- one to society, and one to nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
Nature designed us to be of good cheer.
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason- the lawyers didn't make it.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.
There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
Troubles are like babies- they only grow by nursing.
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