” A man is known by the company his mind keeps. “
” The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. “
” No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird’s throat, Since Eden’s freshness and man’s fall No rose has been original. “
” In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. “
” A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led – with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus! “
” To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man. “
” A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. “
” A man should have duties outside of himself, without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. “
” There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. “
” What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while. “
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