--_Dickens_.

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It is every man's duty to make himself profitable to mankind.

--_Seneca_.

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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it
could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer: because it was
he, because it was I.

--_Montaigne_.

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Indifferent people can only wound you in heterogeneous parts, maim you
in your arm or leg: but the friend can make no pass but at the heart
itself.

--_Steele_.

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Tell me, gentle traveler, who hast wandered through the world, and seen
the sweetest roses blow, and brightest gliding rivers, of all thine eyes
have seen, which is the fairest land? "Child, shall I tell thee where