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... hours and golden dreams ; and such things are very pretty and poetical , but they exist more in imagination than reality . It is a great mistake to fancy that youth is always the happiest , or indeed a happy period of life . To many it ...
... hours and golden dreams ; and such things are very pretty and poetical , but they exist more in imagination than reality . It is a great mistake to fancy that youth is always the happiest , or indeed a happy period of life . To many it ...
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... hour , and have , moreover , the advantage of being accomplishable at times which you would other- wise spend in idleness , such half - hours , I mean , as those when it would be rude to take up a book , and formal to be quite without ...
... hour , and have , moreover , the advantage of being accomplishable at times which you would other- wise spend in idleness , such half - hours , I mean , as those when it would be rude to take up a book , and formal to be quite without ...
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... hour its own peculiar employment , is the best . When you wake in the morning , ask yourself , " what you have got ... hours should , as a general rule , be devoted to useful occupa- tions , which we will sum up under the compre- hensive ...
... hour its own peculiar employment , is the best . When you wake in the morning , ask yourself , " what you have got ... hours should , as a general rule , be devoted to useful occupa- tions , which we will sum up under the compre- hensive ...
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... hour at which to rise , but this must vary according to your own health and the habits of your family . Be earlier than this if you like , but never later , unless through illness . Most young ladies give themselves an hour for their ...
... hour at which to rise , but this must vary according to your own health and the habits of your family . Be earlier than this if you like , but never later , unless through illness . Most young ladies give themselves an hour for their ...
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... hour , in trying to check it . The best way to set about this , is to encourage a habit of self - recollectedness when speaking ; but if such a habit is not in your power - and it is a gift which all do not possess alike , —you can , at ...
... hour , in trying to check it . The best way to set about this , is to encourage a habit of self - recollectedness when speaking ; but if such a habit is not in your power - and it is a gift which all do not possess alike , —you can , at ...
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