| Quotes |
Topic |
| Agriculture | The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven. |
| Agriculture | Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. |
| Agriculture | He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. |
| Apparel | After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. |
| Fortune | Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. |
| Liquor | As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. |
| Love | Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. |
| Luck | Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. |
| Medicine | A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. |
| Occupations | The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. |
| Opinion | Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth. |
| Philanthropy | He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. |
| Post | A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! |
| Post | A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth. |
| Reputation | Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. |
| Reputation | That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. |
| Slander | If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. |
| Talk | Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. |
| Temptation | Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation. |
| Treason | Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader. |
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