It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung...

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung...

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung...

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung...

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Petty laws breed great crimes.