In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.
when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.