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Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.
[Beauty]

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Better is the enemy of the good.
[Acceptance]

Business is the salt of life.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Canada: A few acres of snow.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Common sense is not so common.
[Intelligence]

Complacency is a coin by the aid of which all the world can, for want of essential means, pay its club bill in society. - It is necessary, however, that it may lose nothing of its merits, to associate judgment and prudence with it.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
[Medicine]

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. - Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
[Character]

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
[World]


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