When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Life is a fairytale of courage, fear, failure, persistence and triumph.

From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'

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