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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
James Boswell
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I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.
Dorothy Wordsworth
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Our diversion was dancing (or jumping about) without a violin or any music, singing of foolish and bawdy healths and more such-like stupidity, and drinking all the time as fast as could be poured down; and the parson of the parish was one amongst the mixed multitude, all the time.
Thomas Turner
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Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.
Francis Asbury
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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!
Joseph Addison
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