I could never hate anyone I knew.
From Charles Lamb
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
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