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Friendship is a sheltering tree. ”
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. ”
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. ”
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. ”
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. ”
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. ”
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. ”
The true art of memory is the art of attention. ”
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. ”
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ”