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A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

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The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.

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The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the 'New Hampshire Gazette' appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead?

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Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.

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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

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A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

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There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 11th, 1836

Died: March 19th, 1907

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