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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
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Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
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Altogether, he's about as genial as the north side of a meeting-house.
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker — covetousness.
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Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.
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Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.
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Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?
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Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.
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The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
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I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.
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There are no little things. 'Little things,' so called, are the hinges of the universe.
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Ah! the difference, whether the hearse stands before one's own door, or one's neighbor's.
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They who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
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O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone.
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There is nothing on earth so savage — even a bear robbed of her cubs — as a hungry husband.
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The tiny feet that crept, mice-like, in and out from under the sweeping folds of her silken robe.
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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.
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Preface. Excuse me. None this time. There have already been too many big porticos before little buildings.
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Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
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What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
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Now I am in for it, with one of my unappeasable headaches. Don't talk to me of doctors; it is incurable as a love-fit.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
July 9, 1811
Died:
October 10, 1872
(aged 61)
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