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What is he to learn? To imitate? Or to avoid? When your friends the bees worry themselves about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touch...more

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What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

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...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - f...more

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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level ...more

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I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge ...more

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It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with to...more

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I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

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I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

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He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had...more

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He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

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Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the reviv...more

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They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas f...more

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In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injust...more

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When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

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I assumed my first undivided responsibility.