This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure...

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure...

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate...

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate...

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted...

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted...

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want...

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want...

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is...

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is...

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

What is there that money will not do?

What is there that money will not do?

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty...

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty...

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew...

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew...

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in...

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in...

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so...

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so...

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven...

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven...

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can...

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can...

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit...

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit...

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a...

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a...

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible...

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible...