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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.