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 schoolboy whips his taxed top the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.Sydney Smith
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
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I am just going to pray for you at St. Paul's, but with no very lively hope of success.
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What you don't know would make a great book.
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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
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How can a bishop marry How can he flirt The most he can say is ''I will see you in the vestry after service.''
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