Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
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