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Subdue
your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human
nature .
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Abstinence
Father
Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he
tarries for none of his children, often lays his
hand lightly upon those who have used him well;
making them old men and women inexorably enough, but
leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full
vigor. With such people the gray head is but the
impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them
his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the
quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
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Age And Aging
If its
individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed,
it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and
always is at an alarming crisis, and never was
otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make
oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or
night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous
of all countries on the habitable globe.
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America
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It was
a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all
rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's
hand.
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Audiences
It is
a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a
complete answer to those who contend for the gradual
degeneration of the human species, that every baby
born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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Babies
Here's
the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they
would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
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Bargains
There
are books of which the backs and covers are by far
the best parts.
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Books And Reading
Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
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