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... keep up the price of corn . It is one question , how to graft your trees so as to grow most apples ; and quite another , whether having such a heap of apples in the storeroom will not make them all rot . Now , therefore , that we are ...
... keep up the price of corn . It is one question , how to graft your trees so as to grow most apples ; and quite another , whether having such a heap of apples in the storeroom will not make them all rot . Now , therefore , that we are ...
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... keep . But of one thing you may be sure , that art which is produced hastily will also perish hastily ; and that what is cheapest to you now , is likely to be dearest in the end . I am sorry to say , the great tendency of this age is to ...
... keep . But of one thing you may be sure , that art which is produced hastily will also perish hastily ; and that what is cheapest to you now , is likely to be dearest in the end . I am sorry to say , the great tendency of this age is to ...
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... keep it , though it should have the misfortune to become old- fashioned . You must not break it up , nor melt it any more . There is no economy in that ; you could not easily waste intellect more grievously . Nature may melt her ...
... keep it , though it should have the misfortune to become old- fashioned . You must not break it up , nor melt it any more . There is no economy in that ; you could not easily waste intellect more grievously . Nature may melt her ...
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