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Consequences are unpitying.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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