“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.