Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.
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