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The morning cup of coffee has an exhiliration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot ...
The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Don't you stay at home of evenings?
Don't you love a cushioned seat
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Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without ...
Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it;Mbut talking is like playing at a ma ...
Now you know very well that there are no less than fifty-eight different pieces in a violin. These pieces are strangers to each ot ...
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but t ...
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but t ...
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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