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"Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."
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"There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy."
"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel."
"The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose."
"Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall."
"It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical."
"However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for."
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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
"None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
"The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls."
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