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All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.
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A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paving it.
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A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief.
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A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
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But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
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Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
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During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
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Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Friendship close its eye, rather that see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.
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He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
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