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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

The church is the great lost and found department.

That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.

One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?