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certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
funny marriage witty
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
love witty power
I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
funny marriage witty
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
bad believe hear
Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
desk laughing legal money night owner risks
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
ease good greater impediment others terms
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
exist ideas moral seen society upright
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only
behind faces society
If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
giant journalism motion
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.
bed innocence proven single sleep slept songwriter sound
He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence
attached men-and-women scholars-and-scholarship shame suffer woman
To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer