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- Johann StraussForty couples dancing ... one by onethey slip from the hall ... sounds of kisses ... the lights go out
- The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the Websters,…
- The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is thechief occupation of mankind.
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