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• burn with indignation, and I ache with fatigue," was the way Miss Rachel summed it up, "when I think of Franklin Blake."
• Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do?
• with all his hair blown out by the breath of his own eloquence,
• People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves—among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings. People in low life have no such privilege. Necessity, which spares our betters, has no pity on us. We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be. I don't complain of this—I only notic...
• Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good!