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The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four... →
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as... →