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- It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it…
- TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself…
- For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we…
- The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life…
- Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts…
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