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I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

George Washington's brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Certainly these men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very useful members of society under good feminine direction

I have never done you injustice. Please remember me," said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob. "Why should you say that?" said Will, with irritation. "As if I were not in danger of forgetting everything else.

Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.

No one knew where wandering men had their homes or their origin; and how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?

You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up the poet's consciousness in his best moods.

The Vicar's talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure.

He has got no good red blood in his body, said Sir James.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning it, to show all the repulsiveness of discontent.

Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.

to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?

Oh, blameless people are always the most exasperating.

Dodo! exclaimed Celia, looking after her in surprise. I never heard you make such a comparison before. Why should I make it before the occasion came? It is a good comparison: the match is perfect.

character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

If you put him a-horseback on politics, I warn you of the consequences. It was all very well to ride on sticks at home and call them ideas.

Hence the mere chance of seeing Will occasionally was like a lunette opened in the wall of her prison, giving her a glimpse of the sunny air; and this pleasure began to nullify her original alarm at what her husband might think about the introduction of Will as her uncle's guest. On