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Children, randomly at first, hit upon something sooner or later that is their mother's and/or father's Achilles' heel, a kind of b ...
Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I ...
I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would ...
La la la, Oh music swims back to me
and I can feel the tune they played
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I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed all ...
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And wo ...
American manners have evolved in a climate in many ways very different from those of the civilization to which most Americans owe ...
[My father] was a lazy man. It was the days of independent incomes, and if you had an independent income you didn't work. You were ...
... when the right of the individual is made sacred, when the image of God in human form, whether in marble or in clay, whether in ...
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seekin ...
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