They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.
JEROME K. JEROMECassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).
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A good woman’s arms round a man’s neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
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What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over
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Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
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But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.
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It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man’s life – the priceless moments that will never come back to him again – being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.
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I can’t sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can’t help it.
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
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The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.
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Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).
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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
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Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don’t want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
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Swearing relieves the feelings – that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn’t answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.
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