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It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day ...more

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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

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One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

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Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father´s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder i...more

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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.