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- Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a…
- The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others…
- A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
- He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
- A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends…
- To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might…
- Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet…
- In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is…
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