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There
are only two styles of portrait painting; the
serious and the smirk.
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Portraits
To be
shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing
the wind moan and watching for day through the whole
long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and
crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn
or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal
things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and
down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by
thousands; a houseless rejected creature.
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Poverty And The Poor
A man
in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the
fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
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Public
Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.
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Regret
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I
believe no satirist could breathe this air. If
another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us
tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any
knowledge of our literature, and can give me the
name of any man, American born and bred, who has
anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this
or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and
most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and
intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my
ears, believe me.
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Sarcasm
Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for
young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages
from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a
smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
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School
A
wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human
creature is constituted to be that profound secret
and mystery to every other.
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Secrets
A lady
of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a
phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper
tolerably certain to make everybody more or less
uncomfortable.
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Temper
Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
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