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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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

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.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

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.

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

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

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.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

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...

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

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

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...

Trees are your best antiques

Trees are your best antiques

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.

Trees are your best antiques.

Trees are your best antiques.