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• Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small…
• Mother's love grows by giving.
• Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
• As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul…
• A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon…
• We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
• The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
• The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
• A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so…
• Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple;…
• His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

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