We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom
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No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
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Of all the events which constitute a persons biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
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