| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Le Sage |
| | | Evil tongues never want a whet. | 1 |
| Facts are stubborn things. | 2 |
| I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so. | 3 |
| I wish you all sorts of prosperity, with a little more taste. | 4 |
| Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. | 5 |
| Naked glory is the true and honorable recompense of gallant actions. | 6 |
| Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. | 7 |
| The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of woman, coeval with the act of breathing. | 8 | | |
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