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Old Chester Tales (1898)
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There are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive — for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!
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Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
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Arguing with Lucy was like trying to sew with no knot in your thread.
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The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
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Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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We middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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Born:
February 23, 1857
Died:
January 13, 1945
(aged 87)
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