A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.Washington Irving
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
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It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.
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I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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