Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
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The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
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