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• 1.The pleasant family
• When in an hour they crowded into a cab to go home, I strolled idly to my club. I was perhaps a little lonely, and it was with a touch of envy that I ...
• 2.Two views of times
• Imagine that you spent your whole life at a single house.Each day at the same hour you entered an artificially-lit room,undressed and took up the same...
• 3.Build me a son
• Build me a son, Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and...
• 4.Letter to a Young Friend
• Letter to a Young Friend Benjamin Franklin My dear friend I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural inclination you mention; and if I ...
• 5.The meaning of life
• Life is never just being. It is becoming a relentless, flowing on. Our parents live on through us,and we will live on through our children. The instit...
• 6.I have as much soul as you
• I tell you I must go! I retorted, roused to something like passion. Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? ...
• 7.Frankness
• You must study to be frank with the world:frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do, on every occasion. If a friend ...
• 8.Shakespeare
• Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of ma...
• 9.Heart of a stranger
• The most loved place, for me, in this country has in fact been many places. It has changed throughout the years, as I and my circumstances have change...
• 10.Great expectation
• As the night was fast falling, and as the moon, being past the full, would not rise early, we held a little council: a short one, for clearly our cour...