When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
—Edwin Paxton Hood
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
—Edwin Paxton Hood
Of all the know-nothing persons in this world, commend us to the man who has “never known a day’s illness.” He is a moral dunce, one who has lost the greatest lesson of life; who has skipped the finest lecture in that great school of humanity, the sick-chamber.
—Edwin Paxton Hood
Topics: Sickness
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
—Edwin Paxton Hood
Topics: Reading, Books
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- Arthur Helps British Essayist, Historian
- V. S. Pritchett British Short Story Writer
- Margaret Drabble English Novelist
- E. F. Benson English Novelist, Biographer
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