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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American…
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A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed…
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas…
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...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every…
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the…
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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,…
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements…
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its…
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always…
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced…
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You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found…
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