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" The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. "
Charles Lamb
Become
Days
Now
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" Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. "
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" A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. "
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" The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. "
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" Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. "
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" New Year's Day is every man's birthday. "
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" The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. "
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