To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.Thomas Hood
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
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There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
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There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
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I remember, I remember The roses, red and white, The violets, and the lily-cups, Those flowers made of light The lilacs, where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburmum on his birthday,- The tree is living yet.
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The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
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