Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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