Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
From Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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