Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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Amiable weaknesses of human nature.
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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
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