'Time has too much credit.....It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. and sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.'

'You are clutching at a straw. And when people do that, it does sometimes save them.'

'You cannot eat your cake and have it.'
'That is a mean saying. You could, if you had enough cake. It is sad that it has become established. It throws a dark light on human nature.

'Pride may go before a fall. But it may also continue after.'

'I think it nearly always rains. We only notice when it pours.'

People are only human. But it really does not seem much for them to be.'

'To know all is to forgive all, and that would spoil everything.

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