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" 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. "
Know
Dog
Book
" Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. "
Me
Once
Anything
" A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. "
Pun
Intellect
Laws
" Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. "
Asparagus
Thoughts
Inspires
" Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. "
Cards
War
Sport
" Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. "
Vein
You
Your
" For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. "
Anything
Die
Sake
" I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. "
Leaving
Late
Early
" I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. "
Old
School Days
School
" I love to lose myself in other men's minds. "
Minds
Men
Other
" Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. "
Lawyers
Once
Were
" Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. "
Us
Beauty
Own
" Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. "
Gaming
He
Trying
" My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. "
More
My Motto
Contented
" My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it. "
Enjoy Life
Practice
Life
" New Year's Day is every man's birthday. "
New Year's
Day
Birthday
" Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. "
Troubles
Me
More
" Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. "
More
Evidence
Life
" Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. "
People
Nothing
Gratitude
" The beggar wears all colors fearing none. "
Wears
Beggar
Colors
" The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. "
Pleasure
Action
Good
" The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. "
Appearance
Shine
Soul
" The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. "
Become
Days
Now
" Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. "
Privilege
Talk
Nonsense
" We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. "
Nothing
Men
I Am
" What is reading, but silent conversation. "
Conversation
Reading
Silent
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