What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.Sydney Smith
What you don't know would make a great book.
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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.
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The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
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The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping
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