We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
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The favor of the Great is no inheritance.
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Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country he is a bird of bad immoral character like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.
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A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
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