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Reward is its own virtue.
Circumstances alter faces.
The wages of sin is alimony.
Actions lie louder than words.
Every dogma must have its day.
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Society's the mother of convention.
Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.
Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
A fool and his money are soon married.
I'm just the same age I've always been.
The way to do some things is to do them.
Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
A living gale is better than a dead calm.
A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.
Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!
When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.
Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.