If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Day's Collacon
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? Man and Superman
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. Essays
We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn. Fragment
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