I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.
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Here my sister, after a fit of clappings and screamings, beat her hands upon her bosom and upon her knees, and threw her cap off, and pulled her hair down - which were the last stages on her road to frenzy. Being by this time a perfect fury and a complete success, she made a dash to the door
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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
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If you expect to reach the goal of perfection, never look at the cup as being half empty, see it as being half full.
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Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle case to keep him quiet during the unaccountable absence (with a relative in the Foot Guards) of Millers. And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic.
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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
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Dios sabe que nunca hemos de avergonzarnos de nuestras lágrimas, porque son la lluvia que limpia el cegador polvo de la tierra que recubre nuestros corazones endurecidos.
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pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol
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So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
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The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
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