Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
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