Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
HERMAN MELVILLEOf all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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