No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.

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