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• There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond…
• I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look…
• It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward,…
• Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The…
• And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin.…
• By writing much, one learns to write well.
• I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I…
• Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
• Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
• Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.…
• My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
• Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of…

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