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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

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Deliver me from my disciples!

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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JACK.I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an abso...more