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The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position, and be bruised in a new place.
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A woman's life is a history of the affections.
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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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