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“Sometimes I really want to lease a suite in a Davy Jones’s Locker and spend several hours, being immersed in reminiscence and exultation. All the gadgets and cell phone connection won’t work there,...”
“…did it make a difference if the remark never got back to the person about whom it was made? She thought not. The harm is done when the words are uttered: that is the act of belittlement, the act o...”
“…one of those dreadful boarding schools. It was down on the South Coast. I think some very unpleasant things happened there…. So many lives were distorted by such cruelty. I know so many men who ha...”
“If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.”
“For fools admire but men of sense approve.”
“Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.”
“My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where yours left off.”
“So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three.”
“When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least.”
“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”
“All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.”
“Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.”
“A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.”
“Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.”
“Men would be angels Angels would be gods.”
“Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”
“'Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”
“All the things I really like to do are either immoral illegal or fattening.”
“To err is human to forgive divine.”
“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
