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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…
• A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed…
• He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
• We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
• The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas…
• ...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every…
• The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the…
• 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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