Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... friends- " Vale ! vale ! vale ! nos te ordine quo Natura permiserit , sequemur . " THE WISDOM OF LAUGHTER . " Let those now laugh who never laugh'd before , And those who always laugh'd now laugh the more . ” THEY have really brought ...
... friends- " Vale ! vale ! vale ! nos te ordine quo Natura permiserit , sequemur . " THE WISDOM OF LAUGHTER . " Let those now laugh who never laugh'd before , And those who always laugh'd now laugh the more . ” THEY have really brought ...
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... friends will not come to a shabby house ; that is to say , you must live for visitants who call upon you to kill time and dine with you , to share your bottle , not your heart ; -for horses whom you hate to employ , if , like me , you ...
... friends will not come to a shabby house ; that is to say , you must live for visitants who call upon you to kill time and dine with you , to share your bottle , not your heart ; -for horses whom you hate to employ , if , like me , you ...
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... friends , books , music , and the Muses , who , it is well known , like most other bluestockings , are very chaste and virtuous old maids ; but , because I did not choose to visit every body , I got the reputation of being a person whom ...
... friends , books , music , and the Muses , who , it is well known , like most other bluestockings , are very chaste and virtuous old maids ; but , because I did not choose to visit every body , I got the reputation of being a person whom ...
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... friend Ned Evelyn , who left ten thousand pounds to each of his nephews , Sidney and Frank Stapleton ; the former of ... friends had seen the receipt for the legacy - duty paid in Doc- tors ' Commons , and it really was scandalous in a ...
... friend Ned Evelyn , who left ten thousand pounds to each of his nephews , Sidney and Frank Stapleton ; the former of ... friends had seen the receipt for the legacy - duty paid in Doc- tors ' Commons , and it really was scandalous in a ...
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... friends , to be a decided failure , and I now hear people exclaiming- " Well , there was talent and genius in his former production ; and so I always said , though many thought otherwise , and I am the more surprised that he should ...
... friends , to be a decided failure , and I now hear people exclaiming- " Well , there was talent and genius in his former production ; and so I always said , though many thought otherwise , and I am the more surprised that he should ...
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