The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

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If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.