"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones
[Doctors] said I'm going to have this all my life probably.
A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr
A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a Curate!!!
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime
A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure
Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society
All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
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