We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
From Jerome K. Jerome
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
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