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I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.


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I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
         



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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.



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How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?



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For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.





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