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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

Difference
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Nov 07, 2020

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Dignity
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Nov 07, 2020

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Nothing
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Nov 07, 2020

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Horse
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Nov 07, 2020

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

Nov 07, 2020

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Respect
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Nov 07, 2020

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

May
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Nov 07, 2020

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

Lines
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Nov 07, 2020

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

Edges
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Nov 07, 2020

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Only
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Nov 07, 2020

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

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