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
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.
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.
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