What sunk me very low was the sensation that I was precisely as when in wretched low spirits thirty years ago, without any addition to my char...
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I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the rope having fi...
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I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
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We should be careful never to imagine, that the wedding-day is the burial of love, but that in reality love then begins its best life; and if ...
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I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their ...
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My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would ...
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I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.
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Having found a large dead cat so heavy that he could not move it after several efforts, 'Come,' said he, (throwing down the pole,) 'you shall ...
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The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.
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But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.'
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I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-subjects in t...
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Friendship,
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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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