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... present at the breakfast hour , and make few appearances at family prayer . They bully their younger brothers or sisters , and imagine that the universe has been made for their benefit . They spend no evenings at home . The place is too ...
... present at the breakfast hour , and make few appearances at family prayer . They bully their younger brothers or sisters , and imagine that the universe has been made for their benefit . They spend no evenings at home . The place is too ...
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... present without any close friends . Better to have none at all , than spurious and injurious ones . Be content to wait . Do not be like the young lady who , meeting another and a perfect stranger in a railway waiting - room , said , " A ...
... present without any close friends . Better to have none at all , than spurious and injurious ones . Be content to wait . Do not be like the young lady who , meeting another and a perfect stranger in a railway waiting - room , said , " A ...
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... present at them , other- wise he might have forfeited the name of a Roman gentleman . Our own social customs are impreg- nated with Christian sentiment . We have indeed a mixture of pagan superstition and of Epicurean folly . But a ...
... present at them , other- wise he might have forfeited the name of a Roman gentleman . Our own social customs are impreg- nated with Christian sentiment . We have indeed a mixture of pagan superstition and of Epicurean folly . But a ...
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... present course , or would you rather give it up and begin another ? I have known many people say that they are quite in- different as to little indulgences , when I could see perfectly well that they could not do without them . A man ...
... present course , or would you rather give it up and begin another ? I have known many people say that they are quite in- different as to little indulgences , when I could see perfectly well that they could not do without them . A man ...
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... present century . We are no sticklers for phrases , and on the whole we prefer the simpler and more natural terms which prevail now . At the same time , it would be a thousand pities to lose what was good in the old feeling . When the ...
... present century . We are no sticklers for phrases , and on the whole we prefer the simpler and more natural terms which prevail now . At the same time , it would be a thousand pities to lose what was good in the old feeling . When the ...
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