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Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to…

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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…

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