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“Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the finest chains of reasoning in nature, —and have a wife at the same time with such a head-piece, that h...”
“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.”
“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.”
“Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave it is not in his nature.”
“Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.”
“Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.”
“A man cannot dress without his ideas get clothed at the same time.”
“Writing when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”
“Crack, crack—crack, crack—crack, crack—so this is Paris! quoth I (continuing in the same mood)—and this is Paris!—humph!—Paris! cried I, repeating the name the third time— The first, the finest, th...”
