He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
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To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
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