To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes
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Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site Make former times shake hands with latter, And that which was before come after. But those that write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think 's sufficient at one time.Samuel Butler
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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We grant, although he had much wit, He was very shy of using it.
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