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Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Quality not quantity is my measure.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I was a grave digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.
