Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it |
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it |
Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book. |
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere |
His liberties were totally unrestricted, ... He was the only really independent person - boy or man - in the community, and by consequence he was tranquilly and continuously happy and envied by the rest of us. |
His money is twice tainted: 'taint yours and 'taint mine |
History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme. |
History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes |
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal. |
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably |
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out |
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. |
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts |
How empty is theory in the presence of fact |
How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good. |