A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
OuidaIt is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
Ouidanothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
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