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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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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 ass...more

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God bless us, every one!

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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.