"He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon."

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”
“One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.”
“Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.”
“Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life was completely unknown. He worked in a customs house and walked off to work as an anonymous person in this American culture.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.182, Simon and Schuster
“I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.”
“Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.”
“Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.”

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