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Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!


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Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.



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Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.



Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!



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Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.



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The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.



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God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.



I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.





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