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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

It is good to love the unknown.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

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