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A fault is sooner found than mended.
A fault is sooner found than mended.
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a read more
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one read more
To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.