What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
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My little old dog, a heartbeat at my feet.
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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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