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'Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, betwe ...
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it ...
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them ...
For be it remembered that we have not published any ... sentiment without having first ourselves carefully examined it on all side ...
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list--I've got a little list
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A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a wind-mill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment,- ...
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It ...
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tol ...
It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man ...
When mother boasts cheerfully, "Johnny is just crazy about his new little sister. . . . You love her, don't you, dear?" Johnny has ...
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