Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

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