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There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

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But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.

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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

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Crime generally punishes itself.

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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

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The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.

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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.

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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

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Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.

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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

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The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled.

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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

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