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„Сердце женщины, в любви своей оскорбленное изменой, подобно крепости, захваченной, опустошенной и покинутой.“

„Ничто на свете не достается с таким трудом, как истина.“

„Познание подобно морю: тот, кто барахтается и плещется на поверхности, всегда больше шумит и потому привлекает к себе больше внимания, чем искатель жемчуга, без лишнего шума проникающий в поисках сокровищ до самого дна неизведанных глубин.“

„Кто много думает, тот мало говорит, стараясь втиснуть возможно больше мыслей в немногие слова.“

„В этом мире счастлив лишь тот автор, который не печется о своей репутации.“

„Слёзы священны. Они не признак слабости, а силы. Они посланцы огромного горя и невыразимой любви.“

„Вся жизнь женщины — это история ее привязанностей.“

„Женщина более рассудительна в делах любви, чем мужчина, потому что для неё любовь в большей степени предмет и дело всей жизни.“

“They who drink beer will think beer.”

“His [the author's] renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.”

“Two small aisles on each side of this chapel present a touching instance of the equality of the grave; which brings down the oppressor to a level with the oppressed, and mingles the dust of the bitterest enemies together.”

“Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.”

“They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.”

“In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints. […]”

“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.”

“I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.”

“Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.”

“The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.”

“His wife "ruled the roost," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.”

“I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.”

“How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.”

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”

“A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ”