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... wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment ? What books in the circulating libraries circulate ? How we glow over these novels of passion , when the story is told with any spark of ...
... wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment ? What books in the circulating libraries circulate ? How we glow over these novels of passion , when the story is told with any spark of ...
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... wish . Having imagined and invested him , we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man , and are uneasy with fear . The same idea exalts conversation with him . We talk better than we are wont . We have ...
... wish . Having imagined and invested him , we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man , and are uneasy with fear . The same idea exalts conversation with him . We talk better than we are wont . We have ...
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... leaves the language of love suspicious and common , so much is this purer , and nothing is so much divine . I do not wish to treat friendships daintily , but with roughest courage . When they are real , they are not 92 ESSAYS .
... leaves the language of love suspicious and common , so much is this purer , and nothing is so much divine . I do not wish to treat friendships daintily , but with roughest courage . When they are real , they are not 92 ESSAYS .
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... wish that friend- ship should have feet , as well as eyes and eloquence . It must plant itself on the ground , before it walks over the moon . I wish it to be a little of a citizen , before it is quite a cherub . We chide the citizen ...
... wish that friend- ship should have feet , as well as eyes and eloquence . It must plant itself on the ground , before it walks over the moon . I wish it to be a little of a citizen , before it is quite a cherub . We chide the citizen ...
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... Wish him not less by a thought , but hoard and tell them all . Guard him as thy great counterpart ; have a princedom to thy friend . Let him be to thee for ever a sort of beautiful enemy , untameable , devoutly revered , and not a ...
... Wish him not less by a thought , but hoard and tell them all . Guard him as thy great counterpart ; have a princedom to thy friend . Let him be to thee for ever a sort of beautiful enemy , untameable , devoutly revered , and not a ...
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