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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

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It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 4th, 1835

Died: June 18th, 1902

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