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"Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room."
"And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us."
"Have a heart that never hardens"
"Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities."
"A boy's story is the best that is ever told."
"This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?"
"I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me."
"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."
"Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?"
"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."
"All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature."
"every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."
"Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire."
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!"
"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks."
"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."
"There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood."
"'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'."
"The sum of the whole is this: walk and b« happy! walk and be healthy. The best of all ways to lengthen ourdays, is notas Mr. Thomas Moore has it, " ]To steal a few hours from night, my love;" but with leave, be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose."