The gentlemen [at a ball], as they passed and repassed, looked as if they thought we were quite at their disposal, and only waitin
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Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of human
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In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities
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Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling--
Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!
Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered, that
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of atta
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as "
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The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred y
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I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of the real poet. But a
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