Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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To brag little, to lose well, To crow gently if in luck, To pay up, to own up, To shut up if beaten, Are the virtues of a sportingman.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
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Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.
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O Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun, We can never forget that our hearts have been one....
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