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The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no...
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which...
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing...
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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and...
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The sound of fresh rain run-off splashing from the roof reminded me of the...
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on...
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior...
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When I heard that trees grow a new ‘ring’ for each year they live,...