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The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!

A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.