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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.
I hate to write, but I love to have written.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.
The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.
Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .
I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.