"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."

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"Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen."

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"I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house."

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"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."

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"Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer."

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"If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby it."

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"It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over."

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"The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous."

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"I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed."

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"It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so."

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