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Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses
A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.
I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!