“Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.”
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“The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.”
“I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.”
“Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.”
“How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!”
“Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.”
“A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.”
“For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.”
“It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.”
“What ignorance there is in human minds.”
“Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]”
“A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.”
“There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.”
“Australian cattle dogs, are not like Labradors, where they just like to just sit around by the fire and get petted. They're working dogs, so they have a lot of energy, and they can drive you crazy.”
“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
“This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.”
“The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.”
“Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.”
“The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.”
“The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.”