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“A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.”
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
“Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
“The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted.”
“There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor.”
“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us.”