The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
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Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
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The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
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Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
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Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.
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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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The sharp employ the sharp.
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