“I was at peace with the world before, and this finish’d the treaty with myself.”
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“When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.”
“The heart, in spite of the understanding, will always say too much.”
“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!”
“Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.”
“Man is false to himself and betrays his own succours ten times where nature does it once.”
“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.”
“Tew bring up a child in the wa he should go—travel that wa yourself.”
“Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.”
“I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.”
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
“I beleave in the universal salvashun ov men, but I want tew pick the men.”
“Prejudice iz a hous plant which iz very apt tew wither if yu take it out doors amungst pholks.”
“Them folks who are sudden, aint apt tew be solid; lively streams are alwus shallow.”