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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known t...  
A child's a plaything for an hour.  
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.  
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of imp...  
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol l...  
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.  
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they...  
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.  
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.  
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can'...  
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any...  
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his or...  
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.  
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving ea...  
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's...  
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.  
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.  
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.  
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.  
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in ...  
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.  
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without ...  
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troub...  
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.  
Presents, I often say, endear absents.  
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.  
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I nev...  
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.  
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, t...  
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.  
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and hav...  
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fle...  
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that...  
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-let...  
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsens...  
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.  
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one anot...  
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, ...  
What is reading, but silent conversation.