“England and America are two countries separated by the same language”
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“England and America are two countries separated by the same language”
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. ”
“Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other ”
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ”
“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal”
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go”
“A fool and his money are soon parted”
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts ”
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. ”
“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved”
“Gone yet not forgotten, although we are apart, your spirit lives within me, forever in my heart”
“The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one”
“Every goodbye is the birth of a memory”
“Love is timeless - death does not separate the lover from the beloved”
“Good-night! Good-night! as we so oft have said beneath this roof at midnight, in the days that are no more, and shall no more return. Thou has but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays to cover up the embers that still burn. ”
“Paper napkins never return from a laundry - nor love from a trip to the law courts”
“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less”
“To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else”
“People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them”