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- If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you…
- So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of…
- Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
- The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee…
- Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought…
- The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
- You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up…
- Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to…
- His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by…
- In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by…
- My tea is nearly ready and thesun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night…
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