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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

That questionable superfluity small beer.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

We are all slaves to the shining metal.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.