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What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

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I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge ...more

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He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed ...more

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It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with to...more

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I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

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He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had...more

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He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

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I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

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Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the reviv...more

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They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas f...more

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In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injust...more

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I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injus...more

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It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

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I assumed my first undivided responsibility.