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I've already made plans with a taxidermist" — she smiled sweetly — "but thank you." She

If you see my name on one more police report, you're going to put me under house arrest and sentence me to watch Martha Stewart Living 24/7.

And now, though feeble and short-lived, mankind has flaming fire and therefrom learns many crafts.

Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek.

Have you no errand I can do for you in hell?' he said. 'There's cleaner company there.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.

But her course was too purely reasonable not to contain the germs of rebellion.

I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?

put into words by this selfish, well-fed, and supremely indifferent old man it suddenly became the Pharisaic voice of a society wholly absorbed in barricading itself against the unpleasant.

Emigrate! As if a gentleman could abandon his own country! One could no more do that than one could roll up one's sleeves and go down into the muck.

But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop

I don't suppose, dear, you're really defending the French Sunday?

What right had she to dream the dreams of loveliness?

He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.

S? emigreze! Parc? un gentleman ar putea s?-?i p?r?seasc? patria!

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss to the object, than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

A] partial repeal, or, as the bon ton of the court then was, a modification, would have satisfied a timid, unsystematic, procrastinating Ministry, as such a measure has since done such a Ministry. A modificatio is the constant resource of weak, undeciding minds.

Whilst every principle of authority and resistance has been pushed, upon both sides, as far as it would go, there is nothing so solid and certain, either in reasoning or in practice, that has not been shaken.

Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners.

He dredged in a pocket, producing from it a box of non-ethical, and indeed totally inefficacious, tranquillizers, such as could be bought without a prescription across the counter of any chemist's. 'Here, have a Kwye Tewd.' He

There goes the most remarkable man I ever met. Unless I am badly mistaken, the world is due to hear from him one of these days.