Cut a word and it will bleed.
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We are much better believers in immortality than we can give grounds for. The real evidence is too subtle, or is higher than we can write down in propositions.
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot their owning is not graceful seems to be a compromise of their character they seem to steal their own dividends.
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