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Absence of distinction

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Anise-seed bag

Any man's country could get on without him

Begun to fight with want from their cradles

Blasts of frigid wind swept the streets

Clemens is said to have said of bicycling

Could not, as the saying is, find a stone to throw at a dog

Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts

Do not want to know about such squalid lives

Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable

Encounter of old friends after the lapse of years

Even a day's rest is more than most people can bear

Eyes fixed steadfastly upon the future

Face that expresses care, even to the point of anxiety

For most people choice is a curse

General worsening of things, familiar after middle life

Happy in the indifference which ignorance breeds in us

Hard to think up anything new

Heart of youth aching for their stoical sorrows

Heighten our suffering by anticipation

If one were poor, one ought to be deserving

Lascivious and immodest as possible

Literary spirit is the true world-citizen

Look of challenge, of interrogation, almost of reproof

Malevolent agitators

Meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation

Neatness that brings despair

Noble uselessness

Openly depraved by shows of wealth

People have never had ideals, but only moods and fashions

People might oftener trust themselves to Providence

People of wealth and fashion always dissemble their joy

Plagiarism carries inevitable detection with it

Pure accident and by its own contributory negligence

Refused to see us as we see ourselves

Should be very sorry to do good, as people called it

So many millionaires and so many tramps

So touching that it brought the lump into my own throat

Solution of the problem how and where to spend the summer

Some of it's good, and most of it isn't

Some of us may be toys and playthings without reproach

Superiority one likes to feel towards the rich and great

Take our pleasures ungraciously

The old and ugly are fastidious as to the looks of others

They are so many and I am so few

Those who decide their fate are always rebelling against it

Those who work too much and those who rest too much

Unfailing American kindness

Visitors of the more inquisitive sex

We cannot all be hard-working donkeys

We who have neither youth nor beauty should always expect it

Whatever choice you make, you are pretty sure to regret it

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