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 | "Life is fortified by many friendships" | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "No one minds what Jeffrey says: . . it is not more than a week ago
that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "I never read a book before reviewing it: it prejudices a man
so." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "He deserves to be preached to death by wild curates." | |
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Found in the topic Preach.
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| "He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop." | |
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Found in the topic Insults.
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| "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be
separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any
one who comes between them." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society." | |
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Found in the topic Society.
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| "As the French say, there are three sexes,?men, women, and
clergymen." | |
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Found in the topic Sex.
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| "His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much;
but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation
perfectly delightful." | |
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Found in the topic Conversation.
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| "That knuckle-end of England,?that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and
sulphur." | |
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Found in the topic Scorn.
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| "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line
of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be
anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than
nothing." | |
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Found in the topic Housework.
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| "Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my
life; let us swear eternal friendship." | |
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Found in the topic Food.
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| "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do
only a little. Do what you can." | |
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Found in the topic Mistake.
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| "Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is
improperly exposed." | |
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Found in the topic Learn.
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| "I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion." | |
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Found in the topic Confidence.
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| "Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,?nothing so expensive as
glory." | |
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Found in the topic Glory.
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| ""Heat, ma"am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there
was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my
bones."" | |
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Found in the topic Weather.
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| "The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his
taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman,
pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has
paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has
paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has
paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to
death." | |
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Found in the topic Tax.
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| "Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it
exist? I am glad I was not born before tea!" | |
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Found in the topic Tea.
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