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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him ...more

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I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

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I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of...more

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A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with...more

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To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

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This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know not, and whose plebeian appella...more

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To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predomina...more

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I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

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And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still ...more