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Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Sketches and Travels in London (1847)
Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.
Sketches and Travels in London (1847)
I set it down as a maxim that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
Sketches and Travels in London (1847)
Let us be very gentle with our neighbours' failings; and forgive our friends their debts, as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
Sketches and Travels in London (1847)
Time passes—Time the consoler—Time the anodyne—Time the grey calm satirist, whose sad smile seems to say, Look, O man, at the vanity of the objects you pursue, and of yourself who pursue them!
Sketches and Travels in London (1847)
When I say I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as I have no doubt she is to herself.
Sketches and Travels in London (1847)