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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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