Books are a finer world within the world.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.Alexander Smith
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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