Post #3339

You are pretty—we know it; and young—it is true; and rich—who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.
—Martial

Post #3338

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
—Edmund Burke

Post #3337

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease, and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
—Sir Walter Raleigh

Post #3336

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
—Nicolas Chamfort

Post #3335

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another.
—Charles Dickens