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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness, and none more profitable. - [Politeness] There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. - [Vanity] There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. - [Revenge] There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - [Forgiveness] There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel. - [Infidelity] Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go. - [Time] Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish. - [Titles] Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air. - [Gossip] True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does. - [Valor] Truth is the edict of God. - [Truth] Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. - [Work] Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. - [Vanity] Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. - [Virtue] We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. - [Writing] We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves. - [Society] When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. - [Good Humor] Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise. - [Religion] Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power. - [Wisdom] Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none. - [Confidence] Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. - [Words] You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball. - [Obtuseness] You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers. - [Kisses] Young widows still bide their time. - [Widows] Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick. - [Distrust] Displaying page 5 of 5 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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