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Popular passages
Page 106 - Certainly, madam; to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Page 98 - If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Page 128 - The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Page 140 - ... contracts, to undo one another. It is remarkable, that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver (being both the instruments of blood and slaughter, and the price of it), nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
Page 134 - As the tide goes clear out, so it comes clear in. In business, sometimes, prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Page 80 - Early to bed and early to rise, will make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise; and so on, to a great variety.
Page 140 - Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Page 68 - May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.
Page 140 - Some men, like pictures, are fitter for a corner than a full light ; and I believe such as have a natural bent to solitude are like waters, which may be forced into fountains, and exalted to a great height, may make a much nobler figure, and a much louder noise, but after all run more smoothly, equally, and plentifully, in their own natural course upon the ground.
Page 130 - There are three things it takes a strong man to hold ; a young warrior, a wild horse, and a handsome squaw.