I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome...

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome...

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I...

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I...

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less...

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less...

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my...

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my...

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the...

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the...

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to...

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to...

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known...

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known...

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more...

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more...

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in...

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in...

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life

I could never hate anyone I knew.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators...

Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators...

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity....

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity....

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed...

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed...