"The man is mad," he declared bitterly.
George sighed. "I wish," he said, "that I could persuade him to bite all my generals."_
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_A rich man, formerly a cheesemonger, was discussing the Poor Law with Lamb, and boasted that he had got rid of all the sentimental stuff called the milk of human kindness.
"Yes," said Lamb sadly, "you turned it into cheese long ago_."
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Jerrold said of some one who sent his wife effusive letters but not a farthing of money, that he was full of "unremitting kindness."
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A Turkish proverb says, "The devil tempts the busy man, but the idle man tempts the devil."
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