Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine they are the life, the soul of reading Take them out of this book, for instance, you might as well take the book along with them one cold external winter would reign in every page of it restore them to the writer he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids All-hail brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
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The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
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