The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
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In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue.
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A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
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