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It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.

Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.