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... course , accepted the proposal , for you know I could not have done otherwise had I really been averse to it ; but privately , between you and me , I was most confoundedly well pleased with the project . I had seen the said sister some ...
... course , accepted the proposal , for you know I could not have done otherwise had I really been averse to it ; but privately , between you and me , I was most confoundedly well pleased with the project . I had seen the said sister some ...
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... course with the hopelessness of their effort ; and , knowing this , I cannot deny that all may be swept away . Broken by it I , too , may be ; bow to it I never will . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter ...
... course with the hopelessness of their effort ; and , knowing this , I cannot deny that all may be swept away . Broken by it I , too , may be ; bow to it I never will . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter ...
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... course of years , and until his appetite for them has grown ten- or a hundred - fold stronger , and more craving than any natural appetite can be , requires a most powerful moral effort . In such an un- dertaking he needs every moral ...
... course of years , and until his appetite for them has grown ten- or a hundred - fold stronger , and more craving than any natural appetite can be , requires a most powerful moral effort . In such an un- dertaking he needs every moral ...
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... course , had nothing to do . Nor do I complain of them . As to his own church going for him , I think that was right enough , and as to the influences I have spoken of in the other , though they were very strong , it would be grossly ...
... course , had nothing to do . Nor do I complain of them . As to his own church going for him , I think that was right enough , and as to the influences I have spoken of in the other , though they were very strong , it would be grossly ...
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... course I cannot demonstrate what I say ; but I was young once , and I am sure I was never ungenerously thrust back . I hardly know what to say . The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can , never suspecting ...
... course I cannot demonstrate what I say ; but I was young once , and I am sure I was never ungenerously thrust back . I hardly know what to say . The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can , never suspecting ...
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