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A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very nam...  
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little coura...  
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important ...  
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.  
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing...  
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspend...  
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profess...  
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their tim...  
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order ...  
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfec...  
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.  
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I wi...  
I have seen nobody since I saw you, but persons in orders. My only var...  
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Ca...  
I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.  
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word...  
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to b...  
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only ...  
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated...  
Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate t...  
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be...  
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved i...  
Live always in the best company when you read.  
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life...  
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary displa...  
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be sep...  
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will e...  
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chanc...  
No furniture so charming as books.  
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being ...  
Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.  
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.  
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? - how did it e...  
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they k...  
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it...  
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.  
We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By...  
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?  
What you don't know would make a great book.  
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of tale...