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Black care sits behind all sorts of horses, and gives a trink-gilt to postilions all over the map. - [Care] Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. - [Castles in the Air] Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. - [Friends] Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks. - [Equality] Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. - [Daring] Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. - [Diffidence] Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. - [Dinner] Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! - [Courtship] Follow your honest convictions and be strong. - [Conviction] For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. - [Remorse] Frequent the company of your betters. - [Associates] Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. - [Humor] Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter? - [Happiness] He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. - [Snobs] Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. - [Wickedness] How can you make a fool perceive that he is a fool? Such a personage can no more see his own folly than be can see his own ears. - [Folly] How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon. - [Gratitude] Humor is the mistress of tears. - [Humor] Humor is wit and love. - [Humor] I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. - [Remorse] I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play. - [Acting] I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social. - [Associates] I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. - [Novels] I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good. - [Comfort] I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship. - [Courage] Displaying page 2 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8
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