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Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

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Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet,...more

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant assoc...more