To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
Them that has china plates themsels is the maist careful no to break the china plates of others.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
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