"The trumpet does no more stun you by……" — Charles Lamb
"The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility"
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- Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.
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- A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
- No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and…
- We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
- The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
- The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
- A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody…
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- His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
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