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• He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
• Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
• What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
• There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
• The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
• What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
• For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
• It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

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