A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

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The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

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If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.

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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

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That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.

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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

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