I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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