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"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."
Did you ever hear my definition of marriage? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
I never read a book before reviewing it: it prejudices a man so.
Truth is its [justice's] handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train; it is the brightest emanation from the Gospel; it is the greatest attribute of God.
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.
Macaulay is like a book in breeches...He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Economy, in the estimation of common minds, often means the absence of all taste and comfort.
[He] has not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
Live always in the best company when you read.
You remember Thurlow's answer to some one complaining of the injustice of a company. "Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? they have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick."
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