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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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