There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
One more step, Mr. Hands, said I, and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know, I added with a chuckle.
Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a...
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murd...
With a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Do you know Poole, he said, looking up, that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?
As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter...
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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