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For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
James Russell Lowell
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All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls
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