If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

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Trees are your best antiques

Trees are your best antiques

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Books are a finer world within the world.

Books are a finer world within the world.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Trees are your best antiques.

Trees are your best antiques.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed...

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed...

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history