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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
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Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and...
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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might...
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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he...