It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.Sydney Smith
Thank God for tea What would the world do without tea How did it exist I am glad I was not born before tea.
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To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.
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The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.
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