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Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Love the sea? I dote upon it
from the beach.

That questionable superfluity small beer.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

The sharp employ the sharp.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

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.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

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.

A blessed companion is a book
a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend ... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

We are all slaves to the shining metal.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

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.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Malice blunts the point of wit.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes,
with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.