“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple”
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“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple”
“New Year's Day is every man's birthday”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides ”
“A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market”
“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength”
“The vices of some men are magnificent”
“The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.”
“Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door”
“Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts”
“The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen”
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality ”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides”
“I could never hate anyone I knew”
“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself”
“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam”
“Pain is life, the sharper, the more evidence of life”
“The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident”
“I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.”