We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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Those evening bells those evening bells How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime.
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Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree.
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