There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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