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Anger needs constant feeding. He who gives no fuel to fire puts it out.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Animal cruelty is not a game. Although boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.

Applause is named ovation from the latin otis, a sheep.

The City is walled with the courage of its inhabitants.

Courage is not hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

God is the brave man's hope and not the coward's excuse.

Hatred is as blind as love.

Hunger is a hard matter to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.