

“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”
― Maxims
― Maxims

“In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.”
― The Pit and the Pendulum
― The Pit and the Pendulum

“You never can tell with bees.”
― Winnie-the-Pooh
― Winnie-the-Pooh

“93.—Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.”
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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