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I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this -- we wander for distraction,...
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a...
The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it...
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Child! do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures...
He therefore was at strenuous pains
To atrophy his puny brains
And registered success in this
Beyond the...
Alas! That such affected tricks
Should flourish in a child of six!
Source:...
And always keep a hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.
Source:...
I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the...
From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of...
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like...
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff...
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with...
Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted...
The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through...
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum,
because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten...
Physicians of the utmost fame,
Were called at once; but when they came
They answered, as they took their...