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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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She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although…
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.…
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Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!
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